This is a deliriously strange thriller about a scientist (
Jean-Louis Trintignant) who is breeding headless, boneless chickens at a high-tech farm. He's having an affair with
Ewa Aulin, who is plotting with him to kill his wife (
Gina Lollobrigida)...and she's plotting with Aulin to kill him...and he and Lollobrigida are plotting...oh, it's too confusing, but extremely memorable. The bizarre, only semi-linear editing and trippy cinematographic techniques are artifacts of the psychedelic era and combine with the twisted story to make any Euro-cultist's dreams come true. A film that defies easy categorization, it veers uneasily between giallo, drug film, and science-fiction, with heavy doses of romance and Antonioni-like weirdness. Some parts are even reminiscent of
David Lynch's
Eraserhead. Aulin was in the even stranger
Microscopic Liquid Subway to Oblivion a few years later. A must-see for genre fans. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide