Rita Tushingham – A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, 1961)
Posted: July 20, 2009 Filed under: British Cinema, British New Wave, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words | Tags: A Taste of Honey, BF Taylor, British Cinema, British New Wave, Faces, Film Studies, Murray Melvin, Rita Tushingham, Tony Richardson, Words 1 CommentCharting the shift from desertion to independence, independence to isolation, isolation to friendship, and from friendship back to a desertion.
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Rita Tushingham knocked me out when I saw her in this great warts-and-all classic in 1990 on late-night Channel 4. One of the great performances of sixties cinema – and she was an absolute beginner.