(1966)
4.5
Rebecca Flint Marx
Considered fairly bold when it was released in 1966, Georgy Girl is a delightful comedy of sexual manners that does justice to its "Swinging London" setting. It celebrates the lusty principles of its time and place, even as it ultimately reaffirms more restrained, old-fashioned values. Although billed as a comedy, and containing some very funny moments, the film is surprisingly bleak at times, in its treatment of both its characters and the world in which they live. Georgy, high-spirited and strong-willed as she is, is displeased with herself and her perceived unattractiveness, while her gorgeous, promiscuous roommate (a divinely bitchy Charlotte Rampling) is a cold, calculating shrew, and James Mason's amorous sugar daddy is just plain oblivious. For his part, the ebullient, joyfully irresponsible Jos uses his carefree attitude as a thin mask to disguise his withering discontent. As played by Alan Bates, he doesn't so much personify the era's Angry Young Man -- he's too silly for that -- as embody the kind of attitude that would give voice to the hippie movement a couple of years later. Still, Georgy Girl is first and foremost a comic affair, and a very funny one at that. One of the more enjoyable romps of the 1960s, it made a star out of Lynn Redgrave (who took the part of Georgy after it was turned down by her sister Vanessa) and remains a winning portrait of an era and its shifting mentalities.
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Georgy Girl (1966)
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Columbia TriStar
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July 5, 2005 |
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4 Front
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