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More is the 1969 debut feature of Barbet Schroeder, the great (and very much still with us) French-Swiss filmmaker and producer who went on to make films such as Barfly (1987), Reversal of Fortune (1990) and Single White Female (1992), as well as documentaries including General Idi Amin Dada (1974). Born in Tehran in 1941, he became associated with the French New Wave through his early work with Eric Rohmer, and the pair co-founded the production company Les Films du Losange in 1962. 

This film perfectly bottled the countercultural essence of the era. Shot on location in Paris and Ibiza, the film follows Stefan, a disaffected German student who drifts into the orbit of Estelle, a free-spirited American woman living among expats on the Balearic island. Their romance quickly becomes entangled with heroin use, leading to a downward spiral that contrasts sharply with the idyllic setting.