Strip-tease You can't be picky at this job.
A sweet, modest and even somewhat sentimental story about a lady making a successful career in the field of striptease. It's funny when the heroine from the stage throws his jewelry. Throwing them at a rich donor, she in some form enters into an argument with the heroine of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, showing off her allegedly high moral qualities. This skepticism is not related to her profession. The authors did not reveal everything very clearly. We were rather shown that the lady has character. It is not clear what his moral values are.
But before we go into more detail about the failures of the film, it is necessary to note that in the early 60s striptease became one of the most actively used elements in European (especially French) cinema. The atmosphere of the club, undressing women and topless nudity became such a respectable modernity of those years. What happened on the screen simply reflected the reality of life. And so why not look deeper into this life frame.
As a result, we get life revelations about a young lady with large expressive eyes. She was played by dancer Nico. She accidentally becomes a prima and repeatedly improves her art. In personal life, everything is predictable - suspicions of debauchery, friendship with a rich pamper of fate, the attention of the press and the envy of competitors. However, the director understood all this perfectly, so he decided to dilute all these simple moments with dance numbers. There will be a lot of striptease in this film. Or dress dancing. It's about definitions.
However, in an effort to see this art and distance from vulgarity, the director, to my taste, somewhat exaggerated everything. The passions came out very cold, as if devoid of passion and desire. Only once he showed how obeying the impulse, the lady on stage surprises the audience. But for striptease, it's more the norm. In other words, there was too little eroticism.
A serious problem was that Nico was similar to another performer – Dani Saval. Their resemblance made the tape more complicated than it made sense. Given that these ladies changed costumes and were often made-up, this was really not the best idea.
And for 1963, the film was not a revelation. Who would have thought that this topic would be fully explored more than 30 years from now by Paul Verhoeven. And in the proposed connotation, the action came out more for modest bourgeois parents from the late 1940s-50s than for those schoolboys-rebels who were preparing for their 1968 year.
5 out of 10