- Also Known As/Subtitle:
- Gorgeous Girl Like Me
- Year:
- 1972
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Outstanding Performance:
- Premiss:
- A young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women, interviews Camille Bliss in prison. She tells him her life, her murders and her love affairs.
- Themes:
- Christianity
- Compassion
- Courage
- Destiny
- Emotional repression
- Empathy
- Humanity
- Identity
- Loneliness
- Nature
- Self-expression
- Sexism
- Social class
- Solipsism
- Stereotyping
- White culture
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
Really Bernadette LAFONT’s film since she completely overwhelms the narrative and so perfectly embodies her role. Indeed, it is impossible to imagine another actress playing this particular part.
LAFONT plays a young woman with an innocent and unaffected sexuality that men find hard to resist; while also being completely cynical, calculating & manipulative in this satire on repressed Western male sexuality.
The journey from prison (for murdering her abusive father) and her successful marriage and wealth in her own name is quite an odyssey for a lower-class kid. Yet, the events depicted are somewhat arbitrary and could easily be seen in any order. This makes it difficult for the story to reveal character so that we never get much beyond a mannered, superficial, French farce of a sex comedy – albeit a frequently-funny one.
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