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WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT?
U.S., 1965
Directed by Clive Donner
Screenplay by Woody Allen
Starring Peter Sellers, Peter O’Toole, Woody Allen, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss
Music by Burt Bacharach
Approx. 108 min. 35mm.
Paris fashion editor Peter O’Toole, plagued by super-model overload, consults with Sellers’ Viennese shrink Dr. Fritz Fassbender. A mod sex farce and major AUSTIN POWERS inspiration, with the hit Burt Bacharach title song (whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh!); '60s sex symbols Romy Schneider, Capucine, and Paula Prentiss; and “introducing” Woody Allen.
Reviews
“I laughed and laughed and I laughed.”
– Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice
“Stylish direction.”
– Don Druker, The Chicago Reader
“This is, beyond question, the wackiest, loosest-jointed film—the most outrageously cluttered and campy, noisy and neurotic display of what is evidently intended as way-out slapstick—that has come along yet in the wave of cinema of the absurd.”
– Bosley Crowther, The New York Times
“Achieves a vulgarity that is cleansing; it’s like hearing four-letter words after a conversation full of euphemisms and innuendos.”
– Pauline Kael