Confuse in the first part, it reminds the clash between youth and death of a mate , the tricks to cover a bitter reality , for difficult to be prepaired or have the right reasonable answer.
It starts as a trip of young people in vacantion. Some confusion, desorder, incoherence , symbolic presence of director , a dog running near bus.
The final is a not so bad compensation for the large fist of suppositions about story and some emotion about an event not easy to accept . Indeed, my sympathy for Hugo Becker is the main motif to be indulgent about Nico, not deniyeng the temptation to renounce to see the film after its first half.
So, a decent film.