The Knack ...and How to Get It

Out-dated and silly.

It's silly and outdated at first, then the plot gets REALLY distasteful, but I think you could make a decent case that this is as well edited, if not better, than Breathless.

eksantrikliği itici olmaktan ziyade sürükleyici oluyor, bu açıdan şaşırtıcı. ama lester sahne yönetmekten ziyade hareketli enstantaneler yaratmış gibi. hatta tüm film gif'lere bile bölünebilir, o derece.

Curious mix of French and British New Wave. It plays out as nonsense, but understandable nonsense with some fun characters and a good use of style to comment on the generational shifts of the time. Not everything works, I found some of the way the film treats women to be rather crass, but perhaps that's still worthwhile as a relic of the times.

It's a stylistic mess, but that's kind of the point, and that's why this film's rollicking, free-form environment is so much fun. It just feels like everyone is running around doing crazy shit and it's a blast.

You're telling me this got the Palme D'or??? I... okay. Maybe it's all the Andrea Dworkin I've been reading, but I didn't find this funny.

A movie very much set in what was then a contemporary time and place - swinging' sixties London. Good use of editing and a brilliant jazzy score don't quite make up for some reprehensible characters and misogyny that barely masquerades as satire. Attempts to moralize at the end with unflattering results - was the rampant sexism OK in an age of sexual freedom because eventually, a woman stays with a singular partner? The film seems to think so. Funny and imaginative at points but also unpleasant.

The first hour is a cultural set-piece, invoking films like A Hard Day's Night and Help. There's a zany childlike humor within as it hits on some explosive topics. Unfortunately, it feels like it goes too far in the last twenty minutes by trying to make a big joke about a woman who thinks she's been raped. Because of that, it really makes me want to rate this even more harshly, even though the beginning was indicating this was going to push a lot of boundaries.

"In didactic terms I don't think that it succeeds but I don't know that it's supposed to succeed." http://illusionpodcast.blogspot.com/2014/12/episode-41-first-richard-lester-episode.html

I'm glad I stuck with it because round about the point Donal Donnelly enters the film, I kind of clicked with the film's wavelength and moderately enjoyed it. He really saves the film for me (although Rita Tushingham is great too) and it's kind of wonderful to see him decades before his appearance in John Huston's "The Dead".

It's hard to see why this chaotic farce walked away with the Palme d'Or at Cannes; the script is filled with incoherent lines and bad jokes that pile up on top of each other, while Antony Gibbs' editing merely makes the thin story confusing. To be fair, Richard Lester pulls off some intriguing visuals (and a few funny bits), while the acting is mostly acceptable; Rita Tushingham is quite appealing, even when stuck with a drawn-out comic riff on the word "rape". Mainly a curiosity item.