Joanna

1968

Action / Comedy / Drama / Musical

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 532 532

london, england cult film swinging 60s clubs

Plot summary

When 17 year old Joanna comes to Swinging London, she meets a host of colourful characters, discovers the pleasures of casual sex and falls in love. That's when things get complicated.

Director

Michael Sarne Photo
Michael Sarne

Top cast

Clifton Jones Photo
Clifton Jones as Black Detective
Donald Sutherland Photo
Donald Sutherland as Lord Peter Sanderson
Jenny Hanley Photo
Jenny Hanley as Married Woman
Caroline Munro Photo
Caroline Munro as Extra
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1.01 GB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 53 min
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1.89 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 53 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cestmoi 7 / 10

Worthwhile for Sutherland's soliloquy and the cast call on the train platform. A slightly startling film of its time.

It is silly the way we talk about movies. They are not meant for the ages but for slices of time. Once in a great great while one captures something eternal...8 1/2, Third Man, etcetera, but films are social chewing gum. Here is a fine example of an English director of the 1960s doing some turns that were fresh seeming and of the time...playing to the camera in the post dramatic sequence...don't tell me that wasn't and still would be a kick. And Sutherland's lisping soliloquy in the desert, my first awareness of the Canadian actor. A memorable film, one with some fans, many deprecators. But that's what makes horse races. Does sit hold up to critical analysis? Probably not, certainly not in the context of a lot that has followed. But lovely and fresh and exciting at the time, just like that first date with the sweet fresh girl who is now the woman with the scar from the auto accident. We change, the cinema changes. Films are not for the ages, after all, but acts of commerce sometimes tinged with art and freighted with our associations.
Reviewed by karengjl 7 / 10

Anachronistic, but fun

I saw this movie in 1968 and thought it was a hoot. I remember thinking how outrageous it was, but mostly was fascinated by the work Donald Sutherland and Calvin Lockhart. Of course, this is not a film that "wears well" as to look at it now, it seems rather campy and silly. Joanna, as a free-wheeling girl of the '60's seems more like a doormat in our "enlightened" 21st century eyes. However in 1968, relationships between white women and black men were much more taboo and this part of the film brought considerable controversy which would be laughable today. There are several homages to Fellini that don't really work in such a breezy little film. Unfortunately, they might not be see as recognizable homages at this point in time. My review is based on what I thought about at the time, but it is certainly worth a glance if one has never seen it.
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