Pat Calhoun and Perfidia Beverly Hills are members of a left-wing
revolutionary group called French 75. The similarity with Germany's Baader
Meinhof group is deliberate. Perfidia falls in love with Steven Lockjaw, an
army colonel who's hunting the group. She's arrested, and she gives the names
of the group's members in exchange for being put in witness protection. She
continues the affair with Colonel Lockjaw for a short while, but then she
disappears.
16 years later Colonel Lockjaw suspects that a girl called Willa Ferguson is
his daughter. Without telling anyone about his suspicions, he arranges a large
army task force to find her.
The film is very topical. It doesn't mention the name of the current American
president, but there are many scenes which make me think about him.
There's a lot of action, in comparison with Paul Thomas Anderson's other
films. It's a very good film, which I need to see again when it's released on
Blu-ray.
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