Love And Pain And The Whole Damn Thing

Directed by Alan J. Pakula (All the Presidents Men, Klute) and written by Alvin Argent, this funny and at times agonizing road trip is a rich character study about the alienation and isolation felt by the younger generation in the post-revolutionary 60s era.

Awkward and shy, Walter Elbertson (Timothy Bottoms) is exiled by his rich father to a bicycle tour across Spain. Elbertson - miserable in his own shin - makes those around him even more uncomfortable as he suffers through the ordeal of the tour. He escapes the cyclists, only to become entangled in the life of a fellow tourist, the introverted Lila (Maggie Smith), who is suffering from her own anxious tics and insecurities.

The two find themselves locked in an uncoordinated and clumsy affair, two misfits who find companionship in unlikely partners.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 3 September, 2009