Release Date: 6/4/2002 Original Release: 1982 Format: DVD Length: 133 minutes Rating:PG (MPAA) Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable) UPC: 012569520325 Studio: Warner Home Video
Blake Edwards tones down the broadly farcical style that is his signature with this sly musical comedy starring Julie Andrews as British entertainer Victoria Grant. She and an older friend, gay impresario Toddy (Robert Preston), are close to starvation in 1930s Paris. Desperate for work, he changes her image, introducing her to the cabaret world as Polish female impersonator Victor/Victoria. Victoria, now a woman pretending to be a man in drag, becomes a huge success in the nightclub world. Chicago gangster King Marchan (James Garner) becomes especially intrigued by Victor/Victoria while visiting Paris with his dim-witted girlfriend, Norma (Lesley Anne Warren), and his ever-faithful bodyguard, Squash (Alex Karras), who's more than a little concerned by his boss's interest in a transvestite. As Marchan tries to get to the source of his attraction to the entertainer, trying to uncover the truth behind the rhinestone headdress, the farce commences, and the meaning of gender and sexual preference comes into question for all the characters. A director who often shows a willingness to let the seams in his work show for comic effect, Edwards has opted for stylish smoothness here while opening himself to questions of gender that his earlier films had anxiously mocked. Robert Preston steals the film as Victoria's graceful Svengali.
DVD Features
Region 1 Snap Case Single Side - Dual Layer Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85 Letterbox - 2.35 Additional Release Material: Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer Film Highlights: 1. Cast 2. Blake Edwards - Director Audio Commentary: 1. Julie Andrews - Star 2. Blake Edwards - Director
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I don't think anyone besides Julie Andrews would be able to pull off the role of a woman posing as a man who dresses as a woman. Victoria feels unappreciated as a singer until she and her friend come... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
