The Knack ...and How to Get It

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"Nervous schoolteacher Colin and has little personal sexual experience and wishes to gain "the knack", a way to seduce women. He turns to his friend Tolen who gives him unhelpful advice to consume more protein and use intuition, acknowledging intuition is not something that can be completely learned and that women must be dominated. Whilst bringing a new bed back to his place, Colin meets Nancy, a young woman from up North who is searching for YWCA. In between making two Beatles movies, Richard "

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"9.2. 2020 Richard Lester's early comedy film is a combination of several different methods and elements like handheld camera, pop-culture, sexual freedom, satire, and slapstick. Lester isn't interested in following dated routines but the main idea of the film is spontaneity. The main characters are just ordinary young people doing everyday stuff, like chasing girls and constantly ending up in troubles in many kinds of different comical and almost absurd situations. The film isn't as impressive "

The Knack… and How to Get It

“I’m not sure if it’s the material or the hyperkinetic direction, but something about The Knack… and How to Get It just feels off from the first frame until the last. It’s a microcosm of the Swinging Sixties and the sexual anxieties on display throughout, best exemplified by Michael Crawford’s anxious schoolteacher and Rita Tushingham’s frigid virgin. There’s also an unnecessary device of an older British generation scolding the younger one through voiceover and documentary style footage of them looking disproving on the street.   The manic editing and freewheeling attitude Richard Lester brought to the Beatles and A Hard Day’s Night is here again, but that spirit is too overpowering. The Beatles taking the piss out of themselves and deploying proto-music videos is one t” read more