1965 · comedy · swinging-london · lester
The Knack ...and How to Get It
Directed by Richard Lester1h 25m1965
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help but paint things white.
Our read: The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · swinging-london · lester entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / swinging-london, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
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- intimate
- funny
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