Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Claudio Carvalho The newly married Rebecca (Marianne Faithful) leaves her husband, the school teacher Raymond (Roger Mutton) and drives her motorcycle to meet her lover Daniel (Alain Delon) in Heldelberg. While crossing Europe, she recalls some moments of Raymond's life and how she met Daniel at her father's bookstore and then in an inn. "The Girl on a Motorcycle" is a dull and boring movie with a story that is a rip-off of the cult "Easy Rider". Most of the time the camera shows the beautiful face of Marianne Faithful smiling and the story is limited to the storyline. The motorcycle in both movies is the symbol of freedom and the tragic conclusion is alike. The poor image and sound on the DVD seems to be from a VHS. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "A Garota da Motocicleta" ("The Girl of the Motorcycle")

allamo This 1968 film is often dismissed as being a joke, but compare a lot of the scenes, filmed by Jack Cardiff of 'The Vikings' fame, to the now legendary 'Easy Rider', filmed a year later. The similarities are too close to be accidental, especially at the end where the camera pans back and up into the air, surveying the autobahn crash scene from above, to the ending of 'Easy Rider' alongside the Florida levy. Another scene features Marianne roaring her Harley-Davidson Electra Glide past horses, coincidental with scenes from 'Easy Rider'. It's not beyond reason that seasoned motorcyclists like Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper would have seen 'Girl on a motorcycle', and been influenced by the cinematography. If you are a Harley-Davidson enthusiast, you will probably cherish this film for the fine motorcycles featured, namely the aforementioned 1967 Harley-Davidson, while smirking at the ludicrous upright posture of Marianne while apparently riding the motorcycle. I own a very similar machine, and can only marvel at the skill of the stuntman who actually bullied the brute through twisty, damp, oily country lanes, at a real speed that makes my socks roll up and down in panic just watching it!

Martin-Smith-3 I agree that this movie is under-lit in places - especially the indoor scenes. But it is typical of the era and shows some wonderful scenery. Strongly recommended if you're into big bikes and pretty girls. Marianne Faithful is stunning (those cute freckles) and you always know that she is totally naked beneath her leather cat suit. Meanwhile the reverie scenes are typical of what I understand people experience when under the influence of LSD - a popular recreational drug at the time. Imagine a PINK FLOYD album cover and you'll get the idea. In summary I would say that GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE is an icon of late sixties pop culture. Thus it is worth viewing, not only for those interested in the period, but also for those (like I) who lived through it. Indeed - I recall wanting to see this movie when it was first released. But I was too young (12). The original UK rating was X.

AZINDN A dated film with solarization, hip music, and the ultimate "it girl" Marianne Faithful as The Girl on a Motorcycle, this is a flashback tale with a 1968 pre-Easy Rider meets Barbarella setup. Rebecca is a French woman who abandons her marital bed in the middle of the night, slips on a skin tight black leather Lanvin jumpsuit, and mounts a huge Harley-like hog to ride to Heidelberg and meet her lover, a professorial Alain Delon, who will ravage her with long stemmed roses and mild S/M sex. While she travels, she fantasizes about sex, memory, and dull Raymond, a teacher and cuckold husband versus Delon.Filmed in 1968 when the notorious relationship of Faithful and Mick Jagger was the media topic, Girl on a Motorcycle brings back the notion of good women as sexually subservient to their men, and marriage as the only recourse of respectable young girls. Delon was a perfect debaucher by stealing the virginal Rebecca from her father's bookstore for a bike ride to "get the color in her cheeks." Her dull fiancé/husband remains ignorant to his wife's wilder adventures and her desire and enthusiastic willingness to have a pre-marital fling before the pending marriage. With border guards hands on harassing of Rebecca, this film is a slice of why the women's movement was so timely in the 70s as the notion of a lone woman riding the roads through France and Germany must have been as shocking as free-love, drugs, and the Rolling Stones to conventional society. But because she transgresses the limits of propriety, Rebecca must pay with the ultimate sacrifice in a traditional morality story of lust, leather, and booty on a bike.