The 1968 film The Girl on a Motorcycle (released in the U.S. as Naked Under Leather ) is a quintessential piece of 1960s counterculture cinema . Directed and photographed by the legendary Jack Cardiff , the film is a visually hallucinogenic exploration of sexual liberation, existential longing, and the thrill of escape.
: Through frequent flashbacks and "psychedelic reveries," the film contrasts her safe, boring life with her schoolteacher husband against the intense, cold passion she shares with Daniel.
The story follows Rebecca (Marianne Faithfull), a newly-married woman who leaves her husband in Alsace to ride her Harley-Davidson Electra Glide to Heidelberg to visit her lover, Daniel ( Alain Delon ).