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A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey

1961
Drama
1h 41m
Black and white, gay and straight, mothers and daughters, class, and coming of age. Jo is working class, in her teens, living with her drunk and libidinous mother in northern England... (imdb)
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A Taste of Honey

1961
Drama
1h 41m
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Rated 12 May 2018
62
61st
A brilliant film that has aged poorly
Rated 22 Aug 2019
55
17th
*listening to the smiths*: i understood that reference
Rated 23 Dec 2020
84
71st
The 19 y.o. who wrote this presumably based it on some real life experiences given its balance. It does what teens do - view society & adults as awful w/ misery only being alleviated by the right friend, but at the same time suggests even a pretty awful parent's got nuance. It's also decades ahead of its time w/ Jo's 2 friends being problematic at the time. It might almost be Woke if not for the fact that the dysfunction stems from Mom, not society & Jo's not presented as a victim of patriarchy
Rated 03 Nov 2021
90
92nd
People used to be able to move into fully furnished apartments? Kind of gross to be using the same sheets as the previous tenants. I would never make it in 1960s Britain. Tushingham absolutely nails this role.
Rated 01 Mar 2010
59
19th
Not sure why I keep watching Tony Richardson movies, since I rarely like them. This one throw in every plot contrivance but the [ahem] kitchen sink -- the teenage heroine sleeps with a black man, rooms with a homosexual, gets pregnant, etc. The depressing milieu is oddly accompanied by a score that belongs in a Distney flick.
Rated 23 Apr 2009
4
71st
"It's easy to bandy about terms like "classic", but there is no other way to describe this magnificent, if dated, film."
Rated 27 Sep 2019
80
81st
Britanya'da işçi sınıfı, ırk, cinsiyet ve cinsel yönelimdeki farklı görüşlerden kaynaklanan sosyal gerilimlere odaklanan, kitchen sink realismin en iyi örneklerinden biri.
Rated 08 Dec 2019
70
50th
This is a good piece of social commentary of the time. The mother is depicted as the bad person, for the way she behaves and talks to her daughter - her old fashioned attitudes/judgements. She is quite a hypocritical person really and I can imagine such a plot may have caused a fair stir in the time this film was released. I liked that the main character is quite independent and tried her best to do things her way. I liked that her friend, Geoff, is such a thoughtful and seemingly caring person.
Rated 09 Feb 2023
80
68th
The stereotype of the "kitchen sink" drama of the early 60's is that the films are about angry young men, so it's really nice to encounter one about an angry young woman. Adapted from a controversial play written by 18 year old Shelagh Delaney (she co-wrote the screenplay with director Tony Richardson), it's a very unique vision of a young woman deliberately rejecting social convention in ways you don't really see on screen.
Rated 14 Sep 2021
90
87th
Um Gosto de Mel estreava há 60 anos em Londres. Talvez meu filme favorito do kitchen sink realism, inacreditável que a Delaney escreveu isso aos 18 anos ao mesmo tempo que é bastante crível isso ter acontecido. Tão desesperançoso, ao mesmo tempo tão cheio de vida como só uma guria de 18 anos poderia perceber o mundo. Box Versátil British New Wave.
Rated 17 Sep 2021
82
92nd
This is a typical example of Kitchen sink realism. However, it has the most controversial characters and circumstances you could come across in the genre. This time the outcast protagonist is a female and she is not as angry as you expect from a Tony Richardson film. And the tone of the story is not as depressive either. On top of that, this time the characters are quite extraordinary yet all of them are still flesh and blood. The only downside is the ending, it leaves much to be desired.
Rated 11 Sep 2022
75
84th
One of Richardson's better kitchen sink dramas. Jo is a great character with a unique portrayal by Tushingham, but whole cast is very good. The dialogue doesn't touch-up the way the working class talks. Gorgeous photography of location and authentic sets seems to really distill the time and place. In mise-en-scene many scenes here look timelessly iconic.
Rated 02 Aug 2023
72
20th
couldn't pass up the opportunity to watch this as a fan of the smiths, perhaps the more groundbreaking elements have aged badly (uhh some worse than others) and the tone seems surprisingly cheerful given all that's going on but some sign vignettes (the gimmicky seaside sequence in particular) and memorable lines give it enough to remember it by

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