Rating: - Boy, don't you miss the swinging sixties?
"Bliss" is a near perfect time capsule of the mod London scene at the end of the sixties decade. No, it isn't a perfect movie, but it's definitely worth a look just for the sheer craziness of it all. Yes, the direction comes off being just a bit too frenetically akin to the whole Richard Lester style of wild edits and surreal mayhem, the comedy sometimes tries too strenuously for wackiness, and MacLaine and Booth are occaisionally just a trifle much to take as loveable zanies. All that to one side, watch it anyway, if for no other reason than to catch the performances of the secondary actors. You'll ... Read More
Rating: - Feeling Blissful
A wonderful trip back to the crazy 60's (for those of us who were to young to be there the first time), this clever movie doesn't seem the least bit dated. Luminous Shirley MacLaine is a hoot as the American wife of staid Brassier manufacturer Richard Attenborough (who conducts symphonies to the radio). When her sewing machine breaks down, Mr. Blossom sends layabout factory worker James Booth, who receives tea, sympathy, and home-baked cakes from our Harriet. Ambrose Tuttle knows a good thing when he sees it, moves into the attic, and wackiness ensues.
Rating: - Don't make 'em like that anymore!
If ever a film deserves the description of "cult film", The Bliss of Mrs Blossom is it. Largely ignored on its release in the late sixties (I can remember seeing it in a virtually deserted cinema in Baltimore) it is so much a product and reflection of its time that it probably started to date within a week of being finished. But that is part of its charm - the sounds, the colours, the art, the fashion, and (most importantly) the attitudes and seeming innocence of that era. It was one of a handful of films that genuinely caught the atmosphere of "Swinging London".
Rating: - Funny enough to Make a WOLF HOWL! with Laughter.
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom is a wild weird funny movie back when, the sexual revolution still had a few good clean fun turns left in it. This is a movie back when a laugh could be had in good taste by just implying sexual fantasy and showing a far out wacko sense of sex tinged humor. The movie is about an almost dullish odd man who owns a bra making company and his dutiful alas not too devoted wife who finds a spot of fun with a sewing machine repair man, one Mr Tuttle who is her soon to be attic paramour. She enjoys oddish nights with her hubby and wilder weirder mind blowing psychodelic days with her bit ... Read More
Rating: - A sixties time-capsule
A young, fashionable and beautiful Shirley MacLaine joins Richard Attenborough in a hilarious British comedy. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie. I particularly like the fashions and the decor in this film.
Richard Attenborough (Mr. Bliss) portrays a Britsh bra manufacturer...Shirley is the lonely housewife (Mrs. Blossom) who adopts a love interest who moves into the Blossom's attic!
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