Smashing Time (1967)
5/10
Swinging London zeitgeist film is sadly a little disappointing
9 October 2020
Two girls from up North (Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave) arrive in London looking for a town that swings and to make it, but instead find a craziness that they did not expect.

A swinging sixties zeitgeist film if there ever was one. It would probably have been better made or handled if directed by the likes of Michael Winner or Ken Russell with its sketchy old fashioned slapstick comedy skits that come in abundance that many of their films seem to contain. It's all a little too episodic, but the best thing about the film, other than the ever reliable and wonderful Rita Tushingham is the look and colour of the film and the London locations, even if it is a food fight in a good old fashioned worker's caff.
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