Penelope Pulls It Off

I thought that PENELOPE PULLS IT OFF was a dreadful attempt at a sex comedy. Made as a collaboration between the UK and West Germany, it lacks the raucous, anything-goes humour of a German sex comedy and the slightly wittier, class-focused aspects of a British sex comedy. What you're left with is a film that has no idea of what it wants to be.

As is usual with these productions, PENELOPE PULLS IT OFF offers endless nudity from the main starlets and not a great deal else. The main characters seem to spend their time either in bed or lazing around at the poolside, either in or out of bikinis. Ostensibly the story is about a mother/daughter team who decide to turn to art forgery in order to make ends meet. The plot just sort of drifts along aimlessly from there.

The film was shot at a German castle with a German supporting cast and suffers from bad dubbing and a lack of expertise in the direction. The actress playing the daughter, Anna Bergman, is the real-life daughter of famed director Ingmar, which is a bit of a surprise. In any case, PENELOPE PULLS IT OFF is a big waste of time, even for somebody who considers himself a fan of the genre.