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Release Date: 28 October, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (13 total) |
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Strip Like a Frenchie
Five stars if the DVD were put right.
This is the first DVD I've ever seen that is clearly an expurgated TV version. Not only are there the scenes missing, as mentioned in other reviews here, there is even a curse word blanked out near the end. Urg. And no one seems to have mentioned that the film is presented full-screen when it is clearly not that originally (since the credits are presented in something like 1:1.66 aspect ratio). Don't believe Amazon when they say it is widescreen.
And who would care except that this is a delightfully awful youth movie, perhaps the best ever made. It deserves the Criterion treatment. It is every bit as memorable as Band of Outsiders. And the musical sequences aren't any goofier than Pierrot le Fou.
In fact the musical number It's Legal is wonderfully silly. And I would like to correct another review here. The woman doing the lip syncing, Shirley Ann Field, was no more than twenty-two at the time, not at least thirty. Shirley appeared in significant roles in two truly great movies the same year she made BG, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, and The Entertainer. But in this movie she gets to bravely deliver most of the hilarious beat slang. And "Strip like a Frenchie!".
I would also point out that Oliver Reed cannot possibly be mistaken for a Ted in that flannel shirt. Half way to Grunge styles, if anything.
The film is a great antidote to all that nonsense about the same era that was made later, like American Graffiti and Grease, awful stuff that. Where were you in '62? Well, as Adam Faith says in the closing line of Beat Girl, "Only squares know where to go." Half way to Punk sensibilities, if anything.
This is as square as you get for a beatnik movie
If you are looking for a beatnik flick, this one is a real stinker. Where to begin? The main female character is highly annoying (esp the talk about 'kicks' scene with her father), and could use a trip to the beauty salon for that split-end hair of hers. The 'plot' is that her father remarried and she doesnt like her (her stepmother also has the craziest painted eyebrows Ive ever seen). She also learns that her stepmother was once a stripper and tries to use that info to put a wedge between her and her father. They drag this angle out for an hour and a half. Christopher Lee is in the movie- a whole 8 lines and three scenes. The main character also has a 'boyfriend' who believes that drinking and fighting is for squares(??) and does >>horrible<< lip synching with his unplugged electric guitar that magically plays otherwise. This is a BAD movie; for a good beatnik movie, see A Bucket of Blood or The Bloody Brood. I am simply being merciful with two stars.
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