What's new, pussy?

This article is about the movie. For the song see What's New Pussycat? .

Movie
German title	What's new, pussy?
Original title	What's New Pussycat?
Country of production	France , USA
original language	English
Publishing year	1965
length	104 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Clive Donner
script	Woody Allen
production	Charles K. Feldman , Richard Sylbert
music	Burt Bacharach
camera	Jean Badal
cut	Fergus McDonell
occupation
Peter Sellers : Dr. Fritz Fassbender (in the German version Dr. Nikita Popowitsch) Peter O'Toole : Michael James Romy Schneider : Carole Werner Capucine : Renée Lefebvre Paula Prentiss : Liz Bien Woody Allen : Victor Shakapopolis Ursula Andress : Rita Michel Subor : Philippe Jess Hahn : Peter Werner Eléonore Hirt : Mrs. Werner Edra Gale : Anna Fassbender Katrin Schaake : Jacqueline Jean Parédès : Marcel Lefebvre Jacques Balutin : Etienne Howard Vernon : Doctor Françoise Hardy : Mayor's assistant

What's new, pussy? (Original title: What's New Pussycat?) Is a comedy film directed by Clive Donner from 1965 . For the comedian and later director Woody Allen , the comedy was the film debut as an actor; the script was also his first to be produced.

action

Paris mid-1960s: the notorious Casanova Michael James wants to stay true to his new flame Carole at all costs. As the editor of a fashion magazine, he comes into contact with beautiful women every day and finds it difficult to resist temptation. He seeks help from the eccentric psychiatrist Nikita Popowitsch, who turns out to be unsuitable because he wants to seduce one of his patients, who in turn falls in love with Michael.

In addition, Michael's lover would like to check his suitability for marriage; she wants to make him jealous of a relationship with his best friend, the absent-minded professor Shakapopulis, which, however, fails.

When everyone involved in this complicated story spontaneously meets for a weekend in the romantic hotel Chateau Chantelle just outside Paris, turbulent scenes and a chaotic chase ensue when the police are called because of the loud activities in the castle. Finally, Michael and Carole get together and decide to say `` I do ''. But this is not the end ...

Reviews

• Lexicon of international film : “Grotesque erotic entanglements around a Parisian womanizer. Over- the-top comedy in the style of the Swingin 'Sixties , which satirizes the sex and potency cult of the performance society. Woody Allen made his first screen appearance in a film based on his own script. "
• Prisma Online: “This exaggerated grotesque comes from Woody Allen's pen about a fashion journalist who doesn't know how to curb his love life. An abundance of delicious gags and good actors ensure the best entertainment. "
• Evangelical film observer : “Turbulent American comedy that satirizes sexual trauma as a negative aspect of the American ethics of success. The intention of the uncritical film is difficult to read through and therefore only suitable for adults with well-established principles. A recommendation is not justifiable. "

Awards

The film was in 1966 in the category "Best Music, Original Song" ( Burt Bacharach and Hal David ) for the Oscar as well as in the "Comedy Performance" (Sellers) and Song (Bacharach and David; the title song ? What's New Pussycat was by Tom Jones sung) was nominated for a Laurel Award . Woody Allen was also nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best American Screenplay.

Web links

• What's new, pussy? in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What's new, pussy? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 13, 2015 .  
2. ↑ Ev. Munich Press Association, Review No. 481/1965, p. 851