Blue Summer (1973)

Blue Summer (1973). 1h 19m | X

“This is a rather schizoid movie as is evidenced by its two alternate titles u0026quot;Blue Summeru0026quot; on one hand, or u0026quot;Love Trucku0026quot;, on the other. At times this seems like a typically stupid and painfully unfunny early 70u0026#39;s softcore sex romp with a lot of idiotic and unrealistic situations and some pretty unappealing actresses. The movie follows a pretty typical formula–two guys who have just graduated high school go off on a road trip in a customized van looking some female action, and fall into all kinds of increasingly absurd, but not particularly funny situations–and, of course, they have a lot of sex on the way.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere are places, however, where this movie really transcends its formulaic softcore origins. Reality intrudes in a couple places like the one another reviewer mentioned where a sexual tryst one protagonist is having with an older woman is interrupted by her son whou0026#39;s about the same age he is (and itu0026#39;s treated rather realistically and a little sadly, not in the comical way of something like u0026quot;American Pieu0026quot;). My favorite scene though, and really the one that makes the whole movie at all worthwhile, comes in the first half hour: the pair pick up a couple of female hitchhikers (the ONLY attractive women in this movie) and they having a long and surprisingly beautifully filmed double sex scene at a campsite while groovy early 70u0026#39;s music plays on the soundtrack. As unrealistic as the rest of the movie may be, this one scene really captures what it was like (or, at least, what I imagine it was like–this was ten or fifteen years before my time) to be alive and young in the early 70u0026#39;s. This scene alone might be worth seeing the rest of the movie.”