Fanny Hill (1964): Russ Meyer Films the Notorious Novel With Wit

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000

There is a lovely irony sitting at the centre of the 1964 Fanny Hill, and it takes a moment to see it. Here is a version of the most notorious erotic novel in the English language — a book prosecuted on and off for two centuries — rendered as a chaste, giggling bedroom farce with more slamming doors than skin. And here is Russ Meyer, the American who would spend the rest of the decade making the raunchiest films the drive-ins could bear, directing it as a man in a straitjacket. The gap between subject and treatment is the whole story of the picture, and it makes Fanny Hill far more interesting to think about than it is to watch.

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Fanny Hill (1964): Russ Meyer Films the Notorious Novel With Wit