Modesty Blaise (Losey, 1966): BFI Southbank, 6pm
This is a 35mm screening (also on at BFI Southbank on Saturday August 22nd) and part of the Monica Vitti season at BFI Southbank.Time Out review:
Coolly received by comparison with the more immediately accessible James
Bond films which were then at the height of their popularity, Modesty Blaise
is, like Rolls-Royces, built to last. Modelled on the cartoon strip, it
plays the game up to the hilt with its op-art sets, its extravagant
conceits, its outlandish violence, and its arch-fiend Gabriel (Bogarde
having a ball in silvery wig and sinister glasses) daintily dreaming up
ever more monstrous fancies. But under the non-stop stream of jokes lies
a bitter edge of malice, directed not only against the genre itself but
against a society which trusts its politicians and its generals.
Tom Milne
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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