French Dressing (1964)
- Directed by
- Ken Russell
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 14 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A deckchair attendant at a boring seaside town gets a promotion to publicity officer. He tries to attract tourists by organizing a film festival and inviting a French movie star.
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What happens
French Dressing is a 1964 British comedy film directed by Ken Russell (in his feature directorial debut) and starring James Booth, Marisa Mell and Roy Kinnear. It was written by Peter Myers, Ronald Cass and Peter Brett. The plot concerns a deckchair attendant in the run-down seaside resort of Gormleigh-on-Sea who is promoted to publicity officer. In an effort to drum up interest in the town, he organises a film festival and invites a major French film star. The event is soon thrown into chaos by the machinations of jealous mayors from rival towns. Russell later called it "a very unhappy film as far as I was concerned". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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