Doesn't trendy Cookie- V?nus de Palma by her real name - daughter of a millionaire and an intelligent brat deserve more that just being kidnapped? All she needed were two absolute beginners. Her shrewdness and her underhandedness are so much more worthy than all of her father's money. The rebel filmmaker succeeds in creating an extremely grotesque comedy based on the scheming crime classic ?Bande de rapt?s? by Jean Laborde. A parody on the black-comedy series of fighting against ignorance, hypocrisy and the domination by men. An extravagant version of the feminist revolt. ?Luckily, it's Nelly Kaplan making a film that is not like others. In this film, we experience, above all, a new flaire ? not grotesque or parodistic, not farcical either. It's the Nelly Kaplan flaire.? (?Le Canard Encha?n??, 01.12.71)