When Sally moves to London to pursue a modelling career, she moves in with Angela and Dee and discovers the world of the carefree bachelor girl in Swinging London. Over one weekend - filled with parties, blossoming friendships, and romantic encounters with Keith and Nikko (Klaus Kinski) - the vivacious girls learn about life's pleasures and pains.
Die Goldpuppen, 快乐女孩, Le ragazze del piacere
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This one is going out for Francesca Maria Annis, born May 14, 1945.
I had never heard of Gerry O’Hara’s The Pleasure Girls until reading in Sight and Sound that it has been unjustly neglected. If it had been in a theater near me in 1965, I would definitely have gone to see it, but I would have been tempted to walk out.
“I feel wonderful. Everything’s so fresh.”
The film starts out as a time capsule of Swingin’ London with Sally (Francesca Annis) leaving her home in the country to move into a London apartment with two other young women, Dee (Suzanna Leigh) and Angela (Anneke Wills). Almost immediately she attracts the attention of Keith Dexter (Ian McShane), who…
Good-time bohos shack-up and make the scene in London at it's grooviest zenith. A high-spirited, multi-plotted ensemble piece, heavier topics are dropped-in, but stalwart cheeriness rules. With a pithy script and a quirky cast that includes Klaus Kinski as the mildly debauched Continental.
A tale of swinging 60s London that doesn't quite know whether it wants to be a comedy or a drama but feels pretty breezy and is worth a look for Klaus Kinski and young Ian McShane alone. The title song is catchy as hell, too. I would have probably prefered this to go down more of a sleazy exploitation road, but even though the title suggests it to some degree, that isn't really the case at all.
[Spoilers ahoy]
This was pretty wholesome for a movie that stars Ian McShane and Klaus Kinski as the only love interests. This actually reminded me of a more G-Rated The Student Nurses (or well, vice versa), a movie about a handful of women who live together and the varying degrees to which men are pains in their asses. You have the one friend who gets knocked up by a gambling addict loser, the one friend who's gold digging but then falls in love, the 'ice queen' who's trying to figure out how to date and keep her virginity intact.
What I appreciated here was that all of the women actually come out on top at the end, at least moreso…
Another movie selected for Edgar Wright's "London After Dark" series, that were inspirations for his Last Night in Soho (2021); films of the 1960s set in or around that area. Everyone has seen Peeping Tom (1960), but given I have found Wright's taste in cinema very similar to my own, I have checked out more than a few of his recommendations. Of this series I've seen 1960's Beat Girl which while a flawed film, at least had some things to say. Whereas this is incredibly shallow, but has such a boisterous spirit of youth it's impossible to totally dislike. Don't be put off by the saucy title and poster, as The Pleasure Girls is actually surprisingly wholesome. Sure, there's some…
Film 23 of The December Project
Sally (Francesca Annis) moves in to her posh schoolmates' London flatshare, and spends her first weekend going to parties with them and their friends downstairs, and getting to know Ian McShane's charming photographer. The acting is okay, no virtuoso stuff here, yet there's an infectious enthusiasm to the film, which has fast-moving sitcom-like dialogue along with a few more serious bits. Though possibly if you've never been a twentysomething single woman moving to the big city in search of a good time, you won't get such kicks out of it.
The poster on here is misleading. Even in the racier export cut I watched, The Pleasure Girls is barely more exploitation than an episode…
I wish this was just 80 minutes of young Ian McShane awkwardly dancing.
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LONDON AFTER DARK
9th Film Inspiring Edgar Wright for LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
THE PLEASURE GIRLS ini adalah film hitam putih anggaran rendah yang merupakan keingintahuan arkeologis yang nyata dari sudut pandang sejarah sosial. Ini adalah penggambaran yang benar-benar akurat tentang bagian dari apa yang terjadi di London saat itu. Pakaian, riasan, dan rambut gadis-gadis itu benar-benar sempurna, untuk alasan sederhana bahwa film ini dibuat ketika semuanya masih terjadi, dan seperti itulah penampilan gadis-gadis itu ketika mereka berada di rumah, dan bukan hanya di lokasi syuting saja. Untuk mencoba membuat film kecil 'slice of life' ini, dengan cerita yang ramping, menarik publik, diberi judul dan tag line yang sensasional. Tapi film ini benar-benar hanya tentang sekelompok gadis konyol berusia sekitar…
All right luv, here's what you get: Ian McShane as a young heart-throb! Klaus Kinski as a slumlord with a heart of gold! A whole lot of groovy 60's brit slang! And a movie that is far less judgmental towards its female protagonists than I would have thought, as well as including a sympathetic male gay character. Easily the better of the two BFI Flipside releases I've seen so far (the other being the overblown, sermonising "The Party's Over").
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
From criterionforum.org:
"Don't you see, you were putting me on that gambling table...well you lost, and you lost me"
Another great Gerry O'Hara film! This one is actually an ensemble piece, following the fortunes of a group of girls sharing a bedsit building in the big city together (all headspinningly introduced in the first scene as a new arrival gets whirled through the building!), and the various encounters they each have with men! We mainly follow three contrasting sets of couples, new arrival Sally and her banter with the randy youth Keith (played by the baby faced looking Ian McShane, which is quite shocking to see after getting used to his craggy features from that Deadwood show! He's a terrible…
Young Ian McShane. Young shirtless Ian McShane.
