Let me kiss your butterfly
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Let me kiss your butterfly |
| Original title | I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (Kiss My Butterfly) |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hy Averback |
| script |
Paul Mazursky Larry Tucker |
| production | Paul Mazursky Larry Tucker |
| music | Elmer Bernstein |
| camera | Philip Lathrop |
| cut | Robert C. Jones |
| occupation | |
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Let me kiss your butterfly (OT: I Love You, Alice B. Toklas; alternatively: Kiss My Butterfly) is an American comedy film by Hy Averback from 1968 with Peter Sellers in the leading role.
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The Jewish attorney Harold Fine prepares with moderate enthusiasm for the wedding with his longtime friend and secretary Joyce. The 35-year-old is annoyed by his domineering mother and his stuffy life and is headed straight for a midlife crisis . Harold's younger brother Herbie, the black sheep of the family, turns everything upside down: Herbie has joined a group of hippies and bursts into a funeral service with his freaky friend Nancy. It comes to a scandal. Harold falls in love with the pretty, free-spirited hippie girl at first sight. Nancy stays at Harold's and bakes him hash cookies , based on a recipe from Alice B. Toklas ' famous cookbook. The mind-altering brownies and Nancy completely change Harold's view of things.
He lets his wedding break and grow his hair long in order to lead the seemingly casual life as a flower child with Nancy from now on. But the search for charity and self-knowledge under the guidance of a guru finally ends in an orgiastic happening of the new hippie friends in Harold's apartment. Harold becomes aware of the illusory world of the flower power generation. He returns to the altar to flee again.
Reviews
- Arte : “'Let me kiss your butterfly' is one of the most original and eccentric Hollywood comedies of the late sixties. Director Hy Averback's film captures the atmosphere of the flower power era in an ironic and critical way. "
- Cinema : "Exuberant satire on the hippie culture."
- The lexicon of international films : “Swan song for the hippie movement that targets both the flower power era and the establishment. Not without poetry and with approaches to social criticism, but overall too superficial. "
- Rotten Tomatoes : "While this is definitely one of Sellers' best performances, backed up by a great Mazursky and Tucker script, you don't have to be a die-hard fan to have great fun on this great movie."
- Protestant film observer : "Hollywood average color comedy with nice parodic ideas."
Others
- For her role as Nancy, Leigh Taylor-Young was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Young Actress in 1969.
- Christian Brando had one of his few film appearances under the pseudonym Gary Brown .
- The songs in this film are from the group Harpers Bizarre .
- The film premiered on October 7, 1968 in New York . The film launch in West Germany was on January 17, 1969.
literature
- Alice B. Toklas : The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook , Harper & Bros 1954; New edition by Lyons Press, 1998, ISBN 1-55821-754-1 (English)
Web links
- I Love You, Alice B. Toklas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Let me kiss your butterfly. ARTE , September 2, 2008, archived from the original on January 15, 2012 ; Retrieved February 3, 2010 .
- ↑ Let me kiss your butterfly. Cinema, accessed February 3, 2010 .
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995, p. 3265
- ^ I Love You, Alice B. Toklas. Rotten Tomatoes, accessed February 3, 2010 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Critique No. 33/1969
- ↑ Release dates. IMDb, accessed February 4, 2010 .