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Modesty Blaise

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A beautiful former criminal named Modesty (Monica Vitti) decides to go straight and so begins working for the Secret Service, which sends her to infiltrate a ring of jewel thieves. But soon after she joins the gang, dangerous head crook Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde) grows suspicious of his new recruit, and Modesty realizes that British Intelligence gave her a mission she wasn't meant to survive. She then enlists her former partner in crime, Willie (Terence Stamp), to help her outwit both sides.

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Richard Brody The New Yorker 01/16/2017
Losey captures with comedy the same chill of modernity beneath the Mediterranean sun that Antonioni captures with melodrama. Go to Full Review
Variety 03/26/2009
Not merely a spy spoof, based on a book and a comic strip about a femme James Bond type, the colorful production gives the horse laugh to many different film plots and styles. Go to Full Review
Derek Adams Time Out 02/09/2006
under the non-stop stream of jokes lies a bitter edge of malice, directed not only against the genre itself but against a society which trusts its politicians and its generals. Go to Full Review
David Ehrenstein The Advocate 07/27/2021
The whole film -- redolent with pop-and op-art imagery -- suggests nothing less than an Arthur Freed musical on acid. Go to Full Review
Philip Kemp Total Film 10/18/2011
1/5
Joseph Losey didn't really do frivolous. Which is probably why his attempt at spoofy pseudo-Bondery is so direly unfunny. Go to Full Review
Jake Euker F5 (Wichita, KS) 07/29/2005
1/5
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Thea C 4d very dated and as such sometimes deeply offensive, but such style, such fun, so subversive. there are so many dolls. continuity does not matter See more Maynard M 09/12/2024 I normally REALLY enjoy 60's British cinema, even the obtuse offerings. But they have taken Brit obtuse, which has method in its madness, added French and Italian obtuse, which do not, blended it cruelly using an obscure American director and created quite an abominable cinematic monstrosity. Ewwwww. See more Shioka O 11/17/2022 Swingin London 60s cult. Enjoy the avant-garde style set, fashion, furniture from the era. Story is foolish empty and zero coherence. See more 10/30/2020 I saw it in my late 'teens, and even at that age I could tell that this was awful. Not "funny" awful. This was garbage. A waste of Dirk Bogarde and Terence Stamp, although they have to take some of the blame. The category that I would put it into is "bad 'camp'." Cheesy, unfunny, and sad. It remains the worst general release film that I have seen in my lifetime. See more 10/25/2018 American critics don't know the swinging 60's scene and don't understand the humour, Absolutely superb. It is a camp piss take of the trendy and cliche ridden. This review will never be seen but who cares, it is a good film. See more 11/14/2015 good campy fun along the lines of 1966's 'batman' or TV's 'the monkees' See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis A beautiful former criminal named Modesty (Monica Vitti) decides to go straight and so begins working for the Secret Service, which sends her to infiltrate a ring of jewel thieves. But soon after she joins the gang, dangerous head crook Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde) grows suspicious of his new recruit, and Modesty realizes that British Intelligence gave her a mission she wasn't meant to survive. She then enlists her former partner in crime, Willie (Terence Stamp), to help her outwit both sides.
Director
Joseph Losey
Producer
Joseph Janni
Screenwriter
Evan Jones, Peter O'Donnell, Harold Pinter
Production Co
Modesty Blaise Ltd., Twentieth Century-Fox Productions
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Aug 23, 2016
Runtime
1h 59m