Nice film. Good stylised Brechtian acting. Becky and Miranda very sexy. Well, actually, I thought the two lady cops were also sexy, as well as the Shrink and Miranda's mother. In fact, I'm just one big lust-bucket....in my dreams, maybe. OK, I'm the sort of character that should be in such a movie. And I would play the part very well....
Now that bloke Dunking DoNuts Skinner, playing the English cop....he was very good...sort of cross between Mr. Bean and Clouseau with a touch of Cleese and a slice of Frank Spencer.
The Light Touch
2021
Comedy / Romance
The Light Touch
2021
Comedy / Romance
Plot summary
Sexy puckish pickpocket Becky, a Bugs Bunny of a girl, is teasing a wallet out of a purse on a crowded Athens metro when she notices Miranda, falls in love, and the chase is on. Oops, Becky picks the pocket of a policeman on vacation, her Elmer Fudd, and he's obsessed with catching her.
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Really enjoyed this Greek Dark Amoral Light-Fingered Sexy Romp Comedy.
A pleasant enough romp through Athens but...
The setting is Athens and we see plenty of it photographed very nicely by Panos Golfis (along with the judicious use of drone shots) and not just the touristic areas. We see working streets, everyday cafes. We see the city from the butchery of the meat market to the graffiti on the trains to the relaxed eateries. It does indeed capture the real feel of the city.
And in the midst of it all we find Duncan Skinner who stole every scene magnificently. Skinner plays a by-the-book British police officer on holiday who is pick-pocketed by Becky (Tess Spentzos in analysis) on the metro. He immerses himself in the role with style and indeed precisely the right touch needed for a film like this. I just wanted to watch more of him.
He was joined in this film by one other stand-out actor: Skyrah Archer (as Miranda, Becky's love interest) who was completely believable as the thoughtful, cultured, pianist fending off unwanted attention from all sides. Her subtlety was always a pleasure to watch.
A pleasant enough romp through the city except it is accompanied by the bitter taste of misogyny and sexual assault as a joke. In the latter case, the victim of the assault suffers no ill effects whatsoever and simply calls on her abuser to help her out of a sticky situation a little later in the film.
I fear the director has issues with women, hence uses them as props here for little more than titillation.
A pleasant enough romp through Athens.
The setting is Athens and we see plenty of it photographed very nicely by Panos Golfis (along with the judicious use of drone shots) and not just the touristic areas. We see working streets, everyday cafes. We see the city from the butchery of the meat market to the graffiti on the trains to the relaxed eateries. It does indeed capture the real feel of the city.
And in the midst of it all we find Duncan Skinner who stole every scene magnificently. Skinner plays a by-the-book British police officer on holiday who is pick-pocketed by Becky (Tess Spentzos in analysis) on the metro. He immerses himself in the role with style and indeed precisely the right touch needed for a film like this. I just wanted to watch more of him.
He was joined in this film by one other stand-out actor: Skyrah Archer (as Miranda, Becky's love interest) who was completely believable as the thoughtful, cultured, pianist fending off unwanted attention from all sides. Her subtlety was always a pleasure to watch.
A pleasant enough romp through the city.