The Ladies Man (Lewis, 1961): Prince Charles Cinema, 6pm
This film is part of the 'Greta Gerwig Barbie Watchlist' season. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
One of the stranger chapters in Jerry Lewis’s continuing
psycho-biography, the most direct and intimidating confrontation between
his perpetual preadolescent character and the wide world of sex. Jerry
bungles into a plot line that might have been lifted from an ancient
stag movie: he’s the handyman at a women’s boardinghouse. But Jerry
resists the fleshy temptations of the opposite sex with all the blind
determination of a six-year-old. An interesting, if not screamingly
funny, film (1961), enlivened by some of Lewis’s most audacious camera
work and a spectacular three-story cutaway set that impressed Godard so
much he borrowed it for Tout va Bien.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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