Review of Joanna (1968) by Richard D — 17 Dec 2016

Young Joanna moves to London from the country, attends art school, and has all sorts of Swingin' London experiences. You might characterize this film as "episodic", but that really implies that more happens than really does.

Donald Sutherland puts in an early screen appearance as a lisping British aristocrat. His accent is terrible, but his performance is eccentric enough to make it work. The last half hour or so of the film is devoted to our heroine's relationship with Calvin Lockhart, which has to mark this as one of the first films to feature an interracial relationship and to devote a lot of screen time to it.

I liked this film ... it's colourful, playful style and Geneviève Waïte's quirky performance in the lead ... for about half an hour, and then it's general pointlessness wore me down.