Those are the key word to describe Oliver Reed in this British character study comedy where he spends the first few minutes quitting his job with powerful Orson Welles and then looks back on his life with the help of sometime girlfriend Carol White. He goes back to a reunions at his all-boys school, being the only friendly students to bring a female date, and it's a bizarre sequence that ends with him beaten up by the old school bullies, more confused than ever.
An encounter with an old professor, Harry Andrews, is bizarre when Andrews makes a crass pass at White, showing her dirty movies in a strange looking apparatus in his office. Reed must decide what he wants with White, either just sex or something more, especially since he's already got a wife who has sent a private detective out on his trail.
What this is supposed to be is never really confirmed because it is certainly a very bizarre film, but Reed and White do make it interesting with their flamboyant characterizations. Welles plays a real pig of a man, getting cereal all over him and trying to woo Reed back at the same time. Perhaps it's the eccentricity of the script that makes it an interesting little piece of slice of life, directed by Michael Winner in a way that is interesting even if a lot of it makes no sense.
An encounter with an old professor, Harry Andrews, is bizarre when Andrews makes a crass pass at White, showing her dirty movies in a strange looking apparatus in his office. Reed must decide what he wants with White, either just sex or something more, especially since he's already got a wife who has sent a private detective out on his trail.
What this is supposed to be is never really confirmed because it is certainly a very bizarre film, but Reed and White do make it interesting with their flamboyant characterizations. Welles plays a real pig of a man, getting cereal all over him and trying to woo Reed back at the same time. Perhaps it's the eccentricity of the script that makes it an interesting little piece of slice of life, directed by Michael Winner in a way that is interesting even if a lot of it makes no sense.