I've been down for most of the past week or so with 'The Dreaded Lurgy' and sleeping for between 12 and 15 hours a day isnt conducive to movie watching...So i've had to keep things light. While i've listened to plenty of episodes of MST3K over the past few days, today has been the first day that I've felt I could actually sit and watch something without sliding over for a bout of nap time... And 'The Girl from Pussycat'. is pretty much the perfect 'mid' covid film because...there REALLY isnt a whole lot here to need to focus on.
Essentially this was the B-feature on the AGFA 'She Mob' bluray. its 61 minutes long and can GENEROUSLY be described as a 'roughie' about a girl gang who rob a bank and 'get what they want!' But in reality, its about 50 minutes of queer coded sex scenes married up to about 11 minutes of plot that gets surprisingly deep given that the rest of the film is rutting, or running about.
The quality of the print is a bit of a mess, which makes it hard to guage if the jump cuts were intentional and a sign of poor ediitng...or if just enough of the reel was missing that what we're seeing is basically just 'what survived...'
In either case, theres clearly a strong French New wave influence present here. with plenty of jump cuts, flash cuts and experimentation within the direction and cine.
The script is wafer thin, it cares not for act structuring, tone or resolution. it's here to show beautiful women having softcore sex and attractive men undulating passionately.
The cine has that new wave flare of being a bit rough and 'on the fly' in terms of it zipping around the set and location following the girls as they do what they need to. The score is a jazzy little number that just about does the job.
If your coming to this one off the back of 'She Mob' and are looking for more of the same, you'll be dissapointed. This is basically a girl gang picture hardened up with more nudity. I think as an extra though on the AGFA release...Just as a 'nice' thing you have the option of watching alongside 'She Mob' its inoffensive enough.
But as a standalone work? theres MUCH better out there thats worth your time. This was just a fairly flat picture with a few glimmers of good ideas sprinkled throughout that never really get realised...
source https://letterboxd.com/tytdreviews/film/the-girl-from-pussycat/
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