Victor/Victoria (1982)
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 134m
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner
Synopsis:
An out-of-work actress/singer in 1930s Paris cross-dresses as a female impersonator from Poland in order to sell her talent, and soon finds herself the toast of the city, as well as being of more than passing interest to a visiting Chicago mover and shaker.
Review:
A period piece that says much of intelligence about the sexual politics of the eighties, although some of its camp has dated very quickly. It marked a return to form for both director and stars, and confirmed Edwards as a master of elegant visual comedy at a time when the cheap gag had hijacked the genre. It suffers from one or two lapses of pace as always but is otherwise an isolated delight in his later oeuvre, made possible no doubt by the enormous success of 10.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 134m
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner
Synopsis:
An out-of-work actress/singer in 1930s Paris cross-dresses as a female impersonator from Poland in order to sell her talent, and soon finds herself the toast of the city, as well as being of more than passing interest to a visiting Chicago mover and shaker.
Review:
A period piece that says much of intelligence about the sexual politics of the eighties, although some of its camp has dated very quickly. It marked a return to form for both director and stars, and confirmed Edwards as a master of elegant visual comedy at a time when the cheap gag had hijacked the genre. It suffers from one or two lapses of pace as always but is otherwise an isolated delight in his later oeuvre, made possible no doubt by the enormous success of 10.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 134m
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner
Synopsis:
An out-of-work actress/singer in 1930s Paris cross-dresses as a female impersonator from Poland in order to sell her talent, and soon finds herself the toast of the city, as well as being of more than passing interest to a visiting Chicago mover and shaker.
Review:
A period piece that says much of intelligence about the sexual politics of the eighties, although some of its camp has dated very quickly. It marked a return to form for both director and stars, and confirmed Edwards as a master of elegant visual comedy at a time when the cheap gag had hijacked the genre. It suffers from one or two lapses of pace as always but is otherwise an isolated delight in his later oeuvre, made possible no doubt by the enormous success of 10.