Cult movies don't come much 'cultier' than
"The Girl on a Motorcycle". This film was British in name only;
fundamentally it was French through and through from its source novel,
(La Motocyclette by Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues), to its leading actor,
Alain Delon. Pop singer Marianne Faithfull, naked but for a black
leather jump suit, was really only standing in for Bardot. There's no
real plot to speak of but there's a lot of sixties psychedelia, sex,
nudity, cheesy dialogue (Your body is like a violin in a velvet case),
and, of course, Faithfull tearing along the highways and byways of
Europe on a big, phallic motorbike to the bed of her lover, Delon.The director was a somewhat unlikely Jack Cardiff whose superb cinematography also gives the film its texture. Faithfull's non-performance is really rather appealing while the film itself is ripe for rediscovery. It's not actually very good but it's certainly weird enough to be of more than passing interest.
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