During an interview before the screening of her 1994 masterpiece “US Go Home”, Director Claire Denis explained the movie as being the story of a young gir that lives near a US base in the Paris basin during the early 60s who used a GI to lose her virginity and when he wanted more, told him to go away: told him US Go Home.
Shown on French TV, as part of the seminal The Girls And Boys In Their Time series, the 50 minute movie is a gloriously lovely sense of time and place. If it it has a deeper meaning than that detailed above, something to do with moments of transgressions, they don’t matter to me. At one point the girls brother dances in his room to a rock song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gVY1fY-VmM&feature=related). This is as pure an expression of the freedom of rock and roll as I have ever seen. It is beautiful.
The sex scene, the scene in which the girl’s seduction of the GI is not actually there. The director cuts away from it. But the heart of the teenagers is the heart of rock and roll: the call to freedom but also the call to high spirits, sex, an eternal explosion of youth. Or, as it is put simply enough in a French language cover of “Leader Of The pack”, playing on the radio: Vroom. Vroom.