Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.
Jean-Louis Barrault
Conrad Rooks
William S. Burroughs
Allen Ginsberg
Paula Pritchett
Ravi Shankar
Ornette Coleman
Swami Satchidananda
Moondog
Penny Brown
Ed Sanders
Moustique
Sophie Stelboun
Peter Orlovsky
France Crémieux
Rita Renoir
Tuli Kupferberg
Hervé Villechaize
Jasper Redhat
Jill Lator