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Joanna
A Film by Mike Sarne
Billed on the film s original release as 'the female Alfie , seventeen-year-old Joanna is cool, stylish, and determined to start a new life as an art student in swinging London. Played with gusto by Geneviève Waïte, Joanna indulges in the pleasures of casual sexual encounters, colourful daydreams, and an impromptu trip to Morocco with the wise and debonair Lord Peter Sanderson (wonderfully played by Donald Sutherland). But when Joanna falls in love with Gordon, from Sierra Leone, her life begins to get complicated.
Extra Features:
- Dual Format Edition: includes both Blu-ray and the DVD versions of the main feature <li All films newly transferred to High Definition
- Road to Saint Tropez (1966): Joanna director Mike Sarne s fictional travelogue, starring Udo Kier and Melissa Stribling
- Death May Be Your Santa Claus (Frankie Dymon Jnr, 1969): Radical story of an interracial relationship in late-60s London
- Fully illustrated booklet features newly commissioned sleeve notes
- New and improved English subtitles
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you're a fan of Michael Sarne's JOANNA, you'll be over the moon with this gorgeous BluRay transfer. The film is so dated it's painful at times to watch, but at other times it transcends the dreadful 60's backdrop it strives to capture. Overall, this is worth collecting, and if you're a fan like me, it's great to be taken on a trip through swinging London of the 60s. It's almost like being there, except I wasn't. That's why I'll cherish Joanna for years to come.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Cressida
Format:Blu-ray
There were a lot of great British films made in the Sixties as well as even more truly terrible ones. Of the bad ones, Joanna is quite possibly the worst. Bad acting, woeful writing, inept direction, horrendous music, overly artsy camera work...the only good thing about it was the costumes. Genevieve Waite in the title role looks lovely but that's about it. Equally bad is Donald Sutherland in a performance so appalling that you wonder how he ever had a career afterwards. And why on earth have Rod McKuen do the music for a film set in Swinging Sixties London?
In fact, the background is far more interesting than anything that happens in the film. At the end, Joanna gets on a train and says "I'll be back". Supposedly, audiences used to shout back "No! No!". Personally, I don't believe that story only because I doubt there was anybody left in the cinema by the end of the film.
There are lots of old and much better films that deserve to be released on DVD and/or BluRay. Who thought it was a good idea to resurrect this one from its well deserved oblivion?
In fact, the background is far more interesting than anything that happens in the film. At the end, Joanna gets on a train and says "I'll be back". Supposedly, audiences used to shout back "No! No!". Personally, I don't believe that story only because I doubt there was anybody left in the cinema by the end of the film.
There are lots of old and much better films that deserve to be released on DVD and/or BluRay. Who thought it was a good idea to resurrect this one from its well deserved oblivion?
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By P. B. Baker
Format:Blu-ray
Spotted a review of this in the Guardian some weeks back and as I had listened to Director Mike Sarne back in the 60's, I thought it might be fun. Telling the story of a 17 year old (I think) visiting London it is wacky and fun and funny with a young Donald Sutherland playing a rather louche member of the rich aristocracy brilliantly. Scenes of London in the 1960's will appeal to those of a certain age, the attitudes of the 60's are well captured and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Not up there with Blow-up perhaps but well worth an evening.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
fine soundtrack
Oh my god poor joanna,i worried about her after watching this movie.If she was based on a real person i wanted to know what happened to her. Read more
Published 15 months ago by robert
3.0 out of 5 stars
A hotch potch of ideas that don't really add up to much
Several recent reviews are claiming this is the 'Ultimate Swinging London' movie. They probably weren't there.
Swinging London was a lot cooler than this. Read more
Swinging London was a lot cooler than this. Read more
Published on 1 May 2011 by Peter Shilpot Freeman
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