What's New Pussycat (1965)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.1/10   

Directors:

Clive Donner
Richard Talmadge

Guionista:

Woody Allen (original screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

22 junio 1965 (USA)

Género:

Comedia

Frase comercial:

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Plot:

A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.

Plot Keywords:

Hotel | Chateau | Womanizer | Breaking The Fourth Wall | Toothbrush

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Michael James: "Pussycat from the sky, I can't resist you"

Reparto

Peter Sellers	...	Dr. Fritz Fassbender
Peter O'Toole	...	Michael James (as Peter O'toole)
Romy Schneider	...	Carole
Capucine	...	Renée
Paula Prentiss	...	Liz
Woody Allen	...	Victor
Ursula Andress	...	Rita
Eddra Gale	...	Anna Fassbender (as Edra Gale)
Katrin Schaake	...	Jacqueline
Eléonore Hirt	...	Mrs. Werner (as Eleonor Hirt)
Jean Parédès	...	Marcel (as Jean Paredes)
Jacques Balutin	...	Etienne
Jess Hahn	...	Mr. Werner
Howard Vernon	...	Doctor
Michel Subor	...	Philippe

También conocida como:

Quoi de neuf, Pussycat? (France)
¿Qué pasa, pussycat? (Mexico) [es]
¿Qué tal, Pussycat? (Spain) [es]
Qué hay de nuevo, Pussycats? (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

108 min

País:

France | USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

Canada:14A (Ontario) | Argentina:18 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | France:U (re-release) | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | West Germany:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Paris, France

Compañía:

Famartists Productions S.A.

Trivialidades:

Richard Burton appears in a cameo with Peter O'Toole in a scene in a bar where Burton asks O'Toole "Don't you know me from someplace?" and O'Toole responds "Give my regards to what's her name." The dialogue is a reference to their appearance together in Becket (1964) and to Burton's wife at the time, Elizabeth Taylor. Screenwriter Woody Allen later said of the Burton cameo, "It was so cute, you want to vomit."

Errores:

Continuidad: Near the end during the go-cart scene, Dr. Fassbender enters a farmyard in his go-cart and ends up on a horse; however immediately afterwards he is seen driving the go-cart again.

Citas:

Mayor's clerk: I can't spell Sigismund.
Dr. Fritz Fassbender: I think that you have a little sexual block over the spelling of that naughty name. Allow me to help you, I'm a psychoanalyst, among other things.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Into My Heart (1998)

Banda de Sonido:

My Little Red Book

Michael James: "Pussycat from the sky, I can't resist you"

"What's New Pussycat? (1965) was directed by a British director, Clive Donner and it is the first feature film for which Woody Allen wrote the original screenplay. Allen also played a supporting role of Victor Skakapopulis, the friend of Michael James (Peter O'Toole). Michael is a fashion editor, surrounded by beauty and glamor of his models which he can't refuse. He truly loves his fiancée Carole (Romy Schneider) and wants to be faithful to her but what can a man do if the gorgeous women literally fell for him from the sky? He sees a psychoanalyst Dr. Fassbender (Peter Sellers) who is not much of help and faces his own demons. Meanwhile, Victor is desperately in love with his best friend's fiancée...

The movie reminds a lot "Casino Royale" - it was made in the 60s, has a great cast (Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress), strikingly beautiful women and the song by Burt Bacharach. It takes place in Paris - and it is almost as much mess as "Casino... " is - silly, naive, and often simply ridiculous but somehow it works after all these years. One of the reasons I believe is Allen's script, the dialogs and one-liners that are hilarious. This time, Allen received more screen time that in Casino.... and he made his scenes very funny. "What's New Pussycat?" is not a great movie but it is charming and I like it.

6.5/10