English title: Picnic on the Grass
An anthropologist advocating widespread use of artificial insemination is a favorite candidate for the presidency of the European Union. While in the country celebrating his engagement to a girl-scout leader, he meets a country woman with whom he falls in love.
Curious, and curiously dated, comedy which purports to be about the equilibrium between science and nature. It's a poorly written film, and, arguably, not exactly well directed either. It seems to conflate three concepts -- eugenics, the repression of emotions, and assisted reproduction -- for some reason which perhaps only people contemporaneous with the film could explain. To be fair, it is not exactly an unpleasant watch, thanks to its nice imagery and its -- once we dismiss the nonsensical details -- reasonable fundamental thesis.
Rating: 35
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