Taking Off (Forman, 1971): Close-Up Cinema, 8.15pm
Time Out review:
A delightfully touching comedy, Milos Forman's first in America and far better than his later One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or Ragtime,
this deals with the attempts of a middle-aged, middle class American
couple to trace and lure back their runaway daughter. Scenes of their
search are intercut with sequences at a musical audition for
disillusioned youth, and Forman's wry but sympathetic humour derives
largely from the incongruities he observes in both situations: deserted
parents, concerned and conservative, getting stoned in an effort to
understand why kids smoke dope; a rosy, virginal young girl singing a
quiet folk song in praise of fucking. Never taking sides, but allowing
both factions engaged in the generation gap war plenty of space and
generosity, its gentle wit has aged far more gracefully than the
hectoring sermons of most youth movies churned out in the late '60s and
early '70s.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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