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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film has steadily accrued a lot of interest in its content over the 40 years since it was made, which has really brought a total sea change to the way we live and to social attitudes. Not just a curio though, as you will see, it is very brightly played, especially by Lynn Redgrave, who gave a performance here better than any other from her illustrious family I have seen. The crisp photography captures a pretty memorable London from an age when everybody was wanting to be seen there. The direction is typically arty, as was the fashion in British film making then, giving it a reputation it has never managed to live up to since, but then that's how good the 60s was to the Brits all round - We have never had it so good since, in any sphere, except that is, with social freedoms and attitudes toward marriage and parenthood:the underlying theme of the film. It is a pacy, entertaining slice of 60s life that should rate very highly nowadays on the nostalgia scale.
51 of 57 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A comic and mean look at love and marriage in the 60s. Lynn Redgrave plays the title role and is just right for the part – not quite pretty, not quite shapely. She plays a lumbering, warm-hearted, mumsy 22-year old, who's never been kissed. She shares a flat with pretty-bitch friend, Meredith (Rampling) who sleeps around. The latter's boyfriend Jos, played irritatingly by Alan Bates, enjoys having fun with her, but when she becomes pregnant and they marry, finds Georgy Girl more fun than his new wife. Meredith takes off, happily leaving them with the new-born child, but Georgy's intense liking for domesticity doesn't suit Jos either and they part.
The humour comes largely from Georgy's other life, in which her parents are butler and housekeeper to middle-aged northern millionaire "Mr James" played by James Mason. Unknown to her parents, Georgy has become the object of desire for their employer, who pursues her with a touch of comic desperation (and a trace of his characterization of Humbert in 'Lolita').
His acting is well up to the mark but as often in his northern characterizations, his accent is hardly convincing, belying his own Yorkshire roots.
Bates, who was much in demand in the 60s for his portrayal of feral, working-class types, gives no depth to the character of Jos, whom he plays as consistently childish and jocund, a performance which grates after a short time and it's somewhat of a relief when he departs.
Nonetheless, this is quite a period piece and worth viewing for that and for Redgrave's performance. However, the portrayal of pregnancy and motherhood as a tiresome burden will not sit well with modern audiences who have no experience or recollection of a time when kids were not a fashion accessory.
By the end of the film everybody gets what they want, or almost, and the conclusion is largely upbeat and amusing.
DVD quality is good, but no extras.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I've just watched this DVD and whilst I thought the film was great, I'm annoyed that the dvd had been released so badly cropped. When the credits begin you can only see half of the titles. Can't really complain I suppose, when you consider the price but I would have been prepared to pay more and have a decent scope and perhaps one or two special features.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
HEY THERE GEORGY GIRL!
Great 60s nostalgia why cant life be as good today? with james mason makes this dvd a well worth buy excellent!
Published 1 month ago by Diane Tate
very happy with this perchase.
i was delighted with georgy girl, bought back very fond memorys from years back when i watched it as a teenager. Read more
Published 3 months ago by jock
Sweet and touching search for love
22-year old Georgina (Lynn Redgrave) is perky and funny and undeniably frumpy. She wishes she were more like her pretty (but self-centered) roommate (Charlotte Rampling) who's... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Kona
Yippee 4 this black and white flick!
Strange film ..though crucial for the 60,s...Lynn 'bless her' gives her ALL on this one!...nice moody acting also by Charlotte Rampling..great buy!
Published 13 months ago by Anthony Cox
not at described
Just one big complaint about this decent, but no-frills, edition.
It is full-screen, not the 16:9 and 1:78:1 that is described on this page. Read more
It is full-screen, not the 16:9 and 1:78:1 that is described on this page. Read more
Published 23 months ago by M. FUSCO
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
I had not seen this when it first came out, too busy being a young mother, so decided to treat myself to the film, am doing this with lots of this era, and was touched by the... Read more
Published on 21 April 2010 by D. Quintas
Nostalgia............?
Couldn't help laughing at those who said it's 60s 'Nostalgia', not as I remember the 60s!
Obviously London was filled with extremely irritating people if this was 'true... Read more
Obviously London was filled with extremely irritating people if this was 'true... Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2010 by Glasgow
Pretty average sixties nostalgia.
Another one of those crazy and 'zany' movies that wasn't all that impressive that came out of the sixties. Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2009 by FAMOUS NAME
Pretty average sixties nostalgia.
Another one of those crazy and 'zany' movies that wasn't all that impressive that came out of the sixties. Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2009 by FAMOUS NAME
Loved it
I love british made films from the 60's, and this didn't disappoint me. If you're looking for another one, try Up The Junction.
Published on 25 Aug 2009 by Ms. L. M. Harris
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