French Dressing (1964)
French Dressing (1964)
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Genre: Comedy
WEB-Dl 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 7200 Kbps | 86 min | 4,41 Gb
Audio: English AAC 2.0 @ 128 Kbps | Subs: English, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ken Russell
Stars: James Booth, Roy Kinnear, Marisa Mell
A drab little English seaside town tries to improve its image–and increase its revenues–by holding a film festival. When a famous continental star agrees to attend, things get out of hand.
Having read the less pleasant reviews of French Dressing I've just re- watched it after an absence of 20 years, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought it utterly charming and delightful. It's very much a filmed seaside postcard and looks as if everyone loved making it up as they went along. I certainly appreciated the surrealist humour and wasn't at all surprised to see Ken Russell named as director. Bits of it reminded me of Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland (made two years later!), and the burning of the inflatable models, bizarrely, put me in mind of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And I found Alita Naughton irresistible. Pity its reception so upset Ken Russell.
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French Dressing (1964)
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