just watch it!

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Welcome to the swinging London in the 1960s, this is not a blasé romance comedy about the "it" girl, Meredith (Rampling, barely reaches 20), a modish violinist and party animal, but about her more plain-looking bestie-cum-roommate Georgina, aka. Georgy (Redgrave), the daughter of Ted (Owen) and Doris (Kelly), both work (as the butler and housekeeper) for a rich socialite, the 49- year-old James Leamington (Mason) - this is supposedly to a joke, right? It is impossible for Mr. Mason to pass himself off as that age, he could be well into his 60s judged by his appearance here.Mr. Leamington has tender affection for Georgy, the young and immature daughter of his loyal butler, he has been taking her under his wings through all her life, so on the night of his 49-year- old birthday, he offers a "business" proposal to her and ask her to be his mistress. Just like that, no shame for the gaping age-difference (Georgy is 22 by the way), James is farcical but sincere, he has no pretence, but, no young girl with a scant dosage of self-esteem will say yes immediately to the amoral offer, after a tentative kiss (of course, initiated by James), Georgy starts to dodge him for an answer which she hasn't figured out yet, in such an impressionable age, she even hadn't been kissed before, naturally, her heart is hankering for Jos Jones (Bates), the boyfriend of Meredith, a handsome, but flaky young man.There is an earnest agency of Georgy's predicament, she is a misfit of the trendy milieu and deeply insecure about her modest appeal, she envies the passion between Meredith and Jos, and cannot find her toehold in the quasi ménage-à-trois situation, not until Meredith capriciously decides to keep the baby when she gets pregnant a third time and marries Jos, a radical means to alleviate the boredom of status quo, which only fiercely backfires since she is not a mother material, Rampling is smouldering with vexation and implacably flaunts her fickleness which would later become her trademark in her eclectic body of work - a chic beauty with piercing coldness and seething vehemence.So, when Meredith ditches both her newborn girl and her hubby Jos, it seems that a nuclear family finally comes into being for Georgy, whose maternal nature has been unstoppably awaken ever since Meredith's pregnancy, she takes the baby Sara as her own and harvests Jos' adoration, but, can a puerile Jos take up the duty of being a father? Remember once during their habitual bickering, Meredith and Jos curse each other "bastard" and "whore", which turns out to be quite true. Georgy must learn to accept the reality check, and things will not be too shabby for her, since James' offer is still viable, what's more satisfactory? He is now offering a marriage after the death of his wife.From the skeletal structure, GEORGY GIRL dashes off as an counter-swinging-6os manifestation of a young girl who is inelegantly against the grain, aspiring to settle in a more conventional role of motherhood, which could purposefully serve as a propaganda for the conservatives to dope women back into domestic complacency, but, the film doesn't submit to this myopia, with an uglified Lynn Redgrave carries on her star-making role fervently (she was warranted with her first Oscar nomination), and her Oscar-nominated co-star Mason's mellifluous wooing, in the end of the day, there is a slice of life in the ugly duckling's fairy-tale, she doesn't transform to the swan simply because she is not that kind, and doesn't stays with her knight-in-shining-armour since he is a nutcase, childish and unstable (one might find Bates' acting style a bit laboured and jarring here), she marries more for the convenience than affection, there might not be a happy-ever-after scenario, but that's what she can make the best of her current situation, that's wisdom whoever lives in the real world must learn and we are glad to see her finally latch onto that, like the titular hit theme song sung by THE SEEKERS "life is a reality and you can't always run away", go for it! Georgy Girl!

It is hard to find words to describe to this generation the extent of the condemnation that girls "in trouble" faced 50 years ago.Films like Pagnol's "Fanny" or Demy's "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" poignantly illustrated the difficult choice between romantic love and contracting oneself out to ensure that one's child would not face society's all too real retribution.In that context, Georgy Girl is an extremely bold film that turned the Fanny tale on its head, playfully mocking the absurdity of the situation and cleverly empowering the victim. However, it manages to rise above "message" pieces such as "Guess who's coming to dinner" by carefully treading the line between reality and satire and always respecting the basic humanity of the characters.The spot-on performances of the cast, especially Redgrave make this fun to watch and easy for modern audiences to relate, even after the softening of the attitudes that the film gently mocks.Much like the Seeker's opening theme - very 60's but still catchy and fun...

Georgy Girl is truly an amazing little film. What makes it stand out? The acting. These people are actors. Every actor training today should watch these people. Every glance, every laugh, every move these actors make is real and true and just perfect in it's delivery. The story itself isn't really all that fascinating or attractive. There are some really odd characters here. One would think that Georgy, who is also odd, would want to run as fast as she can to get away from these people. But Georgy takes an awkward situation and turns it into something great for herself and her new baby.Every person who has ever felt lonely or unappreciated despite how hard they try will probably find something here to identify with and that is one reason why people will love this film.

This movie was entertaining but just so so. I felt the lure of this film was the intent of going for a niche to shock . This film was intentionally over the top... for its time, much like say films like 'Brokeback Mountain' of nowadays. Not saying its a bad thing , but its about the green. I was surprised that adoption was looked down on back in the 60s; Nowadays giving up a baby for adoption is considered noble. That was somewhat a generational shock. Now I will talk about the characters. James Mason was fine but he was pushing 60 and they said he was 49 in the film. I know back than actors and actresses were very vain about their age and I guess they wanted Mason in this film by hook by crook. He looked silly as a 49 yr old and it was just unrealistic. Alan Bates did an excellent job with the material he was given. His character was annoying. Best way to describe him was GILLIGAN on amphetamines. The 2 female leads were fine with Lynn Redgrave giving a wonderful performance. Particularly , in the scene she was dancing and singing, that seemed a miss for her personality . She did have a strong resemblance to one of the ladies of ROCKY HORROR. Very interesting. In a nutshell, Georgy is an insecure, caring young lady that is timid and relates better to children. I guess the irony, is that one of her love interests, Alan Bates, was all with it and passionate but regularly regressed to being childlike. That was interesting. James Mason as Georgys much older, wealthy suitor eventually got to Georgy and wedding bells. I see some reviews that the ending was shallow and the song bragged of Georgy being rich . It kept being repeated over and over. I do believe some of the reviewers missed the sarcasm. One need only look at Georgys face holding baby Sarah and than end credits. This movie is basically saying that once you get to where you want to be, you are not as happy as you thought you would be. Kind of like getting to the end of a rainbow. Nice film, though dated , but worth viewing .