Critics reviews

Although Les Valseuses often registers as a French equivalent to such would-be challenges to middle- class mores as Corman's The Wild Angels –- a form of shock titillation designed to place the audience in league with a band of macho hell-raisers, while gasping or giggling at the outrages they perpetrate -– this Gallic box-office hit differs by being slicker, more discontinuous as narrative, and a lot more smug about the goods it has to deliver.