Alice falls in love with a jogger called Rabbit.
Directors: Jacek Bromski, Jerzy Gruza
Stars: Sophie Barjac, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Susannah York, Lulu (singing voice), Jack Wild.
David Toguri ... choreographer
Jerzy Leszczynski ... assistant choreographer
Noel McCoy Sheldon ... assistant choreographer
Watched online, mediocre print.
3 songs in the Soundtracks, but we also had dance numbers without singing.
Alice was blonde; no idea why the poster shows her red. The characters are named after those down the rabbit hole of Alice in Wonderland, and some have some of the characteristics, but no one actually looks or dresses like an animal.
One of the IMDb plot summaries says that Alice commited suicide, and that's when the full fantasy began. I'm not convinced, although I did see something red dripping in the bath water, the loss of blood didn't seem red enough to change her state of consciousness yet, and there were red bottles in the foreground, perhaps bath oils.
My interpretation, especially since the film ends as it began, and the scene itself was ambiguous, is that it's all a daydream.
I'm very pleased to have seen Jean-Pierre Cassel (b. '32) dancing. He's no amateur. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a lot of musicals, and his films are mostly French. So I'm not likely to see him again.
Polish film, int'l funding, dir. Bromski & Gruza; 6
