Romance of a Horse Thief is one of the oddest films we’ve screened on Moviedrome. It’s not really a cult film - there is absolutely no cult of fanatic admirers devotedly following this film around, for reasons which will rapidly become apparent. Nevertheless, it contains certain cult elements that seem to be commendable to your attention, namely Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg. If you’re very, very old you may remember a time called the sixties and outrageous things such as Carnaby Street and the breakdown of the draft system in the United States. One of the cult or iconic items of that bygone decade was a single called ‘Je t'aime, moi non plus’, which got banned by British radio stations because it supposedly featured the sounds of the chanteurs making love. This was long before the similar row occasioned by Donna Summer’s 'Love to Love You Baby’. Aren’t you glad that I’m reminding you of all this important stuff?