Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?
1966 Comedy / Drama
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Summary
Everyone is fascinated by American supermodel Polly Maggoo.
Costume designer Isidore Ducasse is inspired by her. Prince Igor
worships her image and resolves to possess her one day. A
television company is in the process of making a documentary that will
once and for all answer the question: who is Polly Maggoo?Review
One of the weirdest films to have been made in the 1960s, Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?
looks like something New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard may have made
whilst under the influence of mind altering drugs - a chaotic montage
of images that has barely the merest semblance of a storyline.
The film was in fact made by the documentary filmmaker William Klein
and is an attempt at absurdist cinema, a work that has no structure or
meaning. Although the film’s innovative style is at first
interesting, once the novelty value has worn off it quickly becomes
tedious. What Klein does show is that a full-length film without
structure has very limited appeal, although wildly experimental films
of this kind are always worth watching out for.
© James Travers 2008 |
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