That's Where I Met My Ramona
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
directed by Russ Meyer
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
Maybe the perfect companion piece to Roger Ebert's infamous review of Blue Velvet. For all the sexual brinksmanship in "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" - for all the bare breasts - there's almost no emotional investment in anyone. Which makes it, by way of a badly edited headache, almost as rough and as tiresome as Ebert's one-star pan. And don't tell me that's the point, because if it were, the movie would at least be fun.
directed by Russ Meyer
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
Maybe the perfect companion piece to Roger Ebert's infamous review of Blue Velvet. For all the sexual brinksmanship in "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" - for all the bare breasts - there's almost no emotional investment in anyone. Which makes it, by way of a badly edited headache, almost as rough and as tiresome as Ebert's one-star pan. And don't tell me that's the point, because if it were, the movie would at least be fun.
posted by NPK at 8:48 AM
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