- Actors: Gay Singleton, Gilbert Wynne, Maggie Stride
- Directors: Lindsay Craig Shonteff
- Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
- Subtitles: English
- Region: All Regions
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Bfi Video
- DVD Release Date: 25 Jan 2010
- Run Time: 86.00 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B002XOL654
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 58,103 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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When Suzy arrives in London to visit an old school friend, she is unwittingly plunged into the ruthless world of the 'groupie'. Fuelled by sex, drugs and jealousy, her new lifestyle fosters in her a cold, cynical instinct for survival.But tragedy is never far away.
With its effective blend of gritty location work, brooding flash-forward devices, and a soundtrack by cult acid folk and prog rock legends Comus, Forever More - who also star - and Titus Groan, Permissive is a dark British counter-cultural artefact that's shot through with grim authenticity. As a bonus, this release also includes Stanley Long's ultra-rare Bread, a film which, whilst exploring the same cultural milieu as Permissive (and featuring its own bona fide cult British rock band, Juicy Lucy), takes a somewhat more lighthearted approach to its subject.
Extra Features:
- All films remastered to High Definition
- Original Permissive trailer
- Bread (Stanley Long, 1971, 67 mins)
- Bread - deleted scenes (13 mins)
- 'Ave You Got a Male Assistant Please Miss? (Graham Jones, Jon Astley, 1973, 4 mins): an unreservedly '70s take on the safe sex message
- Extensive illustrated booklet with contributions by I Q Hunter and Lee Dorrian, and Comus band-members' recollections of working on the film
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Booklet, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Short Film, SYNOPSIS: When Suzy arrives in London to visit an old school friend, she is unwittingly plunged into the ruthless world of the 'groupie'. Fuelled by sex, drugs and jealousy, her new lifestyle fosters in her a cold, cynical instinct for survival. But tragedy is never far away. With its effective blend of gritty location work, brooding flash-forward devices, and a soundtrack by cult acid folk and prog rock legends Comus, Forever More - who also star - and Titus Groan, Permissive is a dark British counter-cultural artefact that's shot through with grim authenticity. As a bonus, this release also includes Stanley Long's ultra-rare Bread, a film which, whilst exploring the same cultural milieu as Permissive (and featuring its own bona fide cult British rock band, Juicy Lucy), takes a somewhat more lighthearted approach to its subject. ...Permissive
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The groupie film was a staple of the late 60's / early 70's B-Movie scene, as nothing played into the hands of the Daily Mail-reading moral classes more than footage of adolescents running away from home and doing questionable things with bearded guitarists. Hence films like "Groupie Girl" and "The People Next Door" were prime pieces of exploitation arcana. The British scene was as vibrant as the American scene and not just supplementary, and it's best represented here in Lindsey Shonteff's "Permissive", and I get to my knees and praise the BFI and their Flipside label for keeping a "lost" film in the public eye.
Suzy arrives from the provinces, fresh and innocent, ready to hook-up with her friends and experience first-hand what The Smoke has to offer in the way of rock-n'-roll fun. Acquaintance Fiona soon has her following hippie-rock band Forever More who show her more than 1000 ways in which to disrobe within seconds (or something) with more quaaludes thrown in than a 1973 screening of "Deep Throat" for good measure. So far so innocent-girl-led-astray storyline which you were expecting all along, with the resultant tragedy endgame to follow. But you're not watching this film for it's dog-eared narrative, but for a first-hand glimpse of the groupie life in the 1970s really. And you get it here in spades, thanks to Shonteff's apparent eye for exploitation cinema (He later directed the trashy Ripper-inspired "Night after Night after Night", erm, Flipside?...) and the colours and fashion of the era. It's a treat indeed.
Anyway, the movie looks good for it's age, but not on a par with companion Flipside piece "Privilege" it must be admitted. Chief extra here is the groupie film "Bread", which is a feature in itself with teenagers at the Isle-of-Wight festival trying to earn money by whatever clandestine idea they can come up with. also watch out for the sex-ed short "'Ave You Got A Male Assistant Please Miss?" which featured on the earlier BFI "The Joy Of Sex Education" DVD, but still worth a watch for some more '70s parochialism. Just buy it and prepare to feel just a little dirty.. Not to worry, a fresh pair of flares should do the treat. Arf.
Suzy arrives from the provinces, fresh and innocent, ready to hook-up with her friends and experience first-hand what The Smoke has to offer in the way of rock-n'-roll fun. Acquaintance Fiona soon has her following hippie-rock band Forever More who show her more than 1000 ways in which to disrobe within seconds (or something) with more quaaludes thrown in than a 1973 screening of "Deep Throat" for good measure. So far so innocent-girl-led-astray storyline which you were expecting all along, with the resultant tragedy endgame to follow. But you're not watching this film for it's dog-eared narrative, but for a first-hand glimpse of the groupie life in the 1970s really. And you get it here in spades, thanks to Shonteff's apparent eye for exploitation cinema (He later directed the trashy Ripper-inspired "Night after Night after Night", erm, Flipside?...) and the colours and fashion of the era. It's a treat indeed.
Anyway, the movie looks good for it's age, but not on a par with companion Flipside piece "Privilege" it must be admitted. Chief extra here is the groupie film "Bread", which is a feature in itself with teenagers at the Isle-of-Wight festival trying to earn money by whatever clandestine idea they can come up with. also watch out for the sex-ed short "'Ave You Got A Male Assistant Please Miss?" which featured on the earlier BFI "The Joy Of Sex Education" DVD, but still worth a watch for some more '70s parochialism. Just buy it and prepare to feel just a little dirty.. Not to worry, a fresh pair of flares should do the treat. Arf.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
In some ways the films that occupy this DVD are hilariously bad, being beyond cheap in terms of production values. Of course these films are also fascinating documents of social history - a great justification for enjoying these tawdry flicks that have about them a 'what the butler saw' character. The age of 'free sex', it transpires, was pretty grim - you get the feeling it's a rare day a sheet gets washed, let alone a hairy rocker.
Of course I picked up this DVD to get a glimpse of Comus, and glimpse only it is, as members of the band hover uncomfortably around the perimeter of a party. Still, Permissive is, in its own way, heaps of fun, and for lighter relief (ho-ho-ho) is accompanied by a 'confessions of a window cleaner' type film in which hairy 70s types put on a free festival. This is quite possibly the funniest British film to get (presumably fairly limited) distribution, being thoroughly disconnected from the culture it seeks to represent. Oddly, it does accidentally have its authentic moments, due largely to the necessity of co-opting extras into the mix.
Not an essential BFI DVD, but chock full of fun and definitely worthy of shelf space.
Of course I picked up this DVD to get a glimpse of Comus, and glimpse only it is, as members of the band hover uncomfortably around the perimeter of a party. Still, Permissive is, in its own way, heaps of fun, and for lighter relief (ho-ho-ho) is accompanied by a 'confessions of a window cleaner' type film in which hairy 70s types put on a free festival. This is quite possibly the funniest British film to get (presumably fairly limited) distribution, being thoroughly disconnected from the culture it seeks to represent. Oddly, it does accidentally have its authentic moments, due largely to the necessity of co-opting extras into the mix.
Not an essential BFI DVD, but chock full of fun and definitely worthy of shelf space.
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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No T&A only in these movies - rather unbritish. Straight forward in other words. You get your money's worth in nostalgia as well. Not Lindsay Shonteff's best buy a long shot but his nudest I've seen so far.
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