Agnes Varda smiled at me! The director was present at the showing of this film (with her 1982 short Ulysse shown beforehand),and she described the historical background of Lions Love (about two feet from my face!). This was her only film made in America, and it's very much influenced by the cinematic court of Andy Warhol. Lions Love stars Warhol model Viva and two men, James Rado and Gerome Ragni (the creators of the musical Hair) as a spiritually linked threesome living in L.A. Filmmaker Shirley Clarke crashes at their apartment, having come to L.A. to meet with producers. To sum the film up, it's late '60s garbage. Sorry to say it, but it is. Mostly improvised, with a lot of goofy, goofy scenes. Warhol and his cronies are almost completely forgotten, at least the cinematic section of it. I would guess that this was just one of a hundred films made in a similar style during this period. My only point of reference is the 1972 film Ciao! Manhattan, which depicts the toppling of Warhol's most famous protege, Edie Sedgwick. That film, I think, is a masterpiece, despite of or because of its cinema verite insanity. Lions Love is much less interesting, and it never reaches an emotional level like Ciao! Manhattan does. Still, Lions Love isn't worthless. It may be garbage, but it is amusing garbage. This is probably due to my youthful interest surrounding the late 1960s, and most who lived through the era would probably find the film insufferable. And it does find a structural anchor, if not an emotional one, in the assassination of Robert Kennedy, as well as the attempted murder of Andy Warhol. If the film depicts the events factually (and, from what Madame Varda seemed to imply, these things happened as they were making the film),those two events happened on the same day. 6/10.

. . . which states that Humanity can never know the outcome of a butterfly flapping its wings in the pancake batter, no matter how big the blueberries are. There have been many famous Bob's in Hollywood History, including Montgomery, Ryan, Mitchum, Hope, Redford and the TAXI DRIVER, none of whom are mentioned during LIONS LOVE, which is focused on a couple Kennedy bob whites, the eldest of whom would turn 95 this year had not S. Bishara S. unexpectedly gunned him down midway through this shoot. Thus lacking a father's discipline, Bobby Junior was recently voted the reprehensible ranter most responsible for America setting all-time death records in 2020-21 by Popular Truth Magazine. Like many if not most fatherless boys, Bobby grew up to be a whiny, self-centered pompous, wrong-headed donkey orifice. As he holds up two fingers behind his doomed dad's hallowed head on June 4, 1968 while riding a Disneyland roller coaster midway through LIONS LOVE, it's clear that this malingering miscreant is on track to become a far deadlier villain than Uncle Scar.

The movie is totally a waste of precious time unless you are a great fan of any of the actors involved or like to see news clips of the 60's in California. The best part is the first part of the movie showing a scene out of a play "the Beard" with Billie Dixon and Richard Bright, but that is just about all you are going to see of Richard Bright. There seems to be no structure, no set script. I think anybody could have done a better job with other wanna be actors and a camcorder. I cant believe they wasted so much time on a scene where they were too lazy to get out of bed to order or make coffee. At the end you will be slapping yourself in the face either to wake yourself up or to scold yourself for the fact that you watched the whole thing from beginning to end.