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“What's New Pussycat hed
yy B. SULIK
This movie created a scandal among the critics in New York. “A sea of ersatz-pornography” thundered the popular magazine “Newsweek” who was supported by the whole American press. The movie was censored by everyone on account of its immorality, vulgarity and bad taste. The N.Y. critics did not find any positive qualities in “What's New Pussycat”.
Such a violent indictment of a movie in a country which, for a long time now, has produced and exported “ersatz-pornography” has produced an opposite effect abroad. It has aroused interest in and even sympathy for the movie. This sympathy, however, is not enough to proclaim it a success (“What's New Pussycat” has reached London by
LETTER FROM LONDON
now) and yet this fact does not mean that one shares the standpoint of the critics in New York.
“What's New Pussycat” belongs to a genre which is as old as our civilization. It is a bedroom farce, a mad chase involving actual and potential lovers, spiced generously with indicent jokes. The prudish reaction of the N.Y. critics is surely misplaced. They were brought up on films from Hollywood and cannot accept the idea of equal rights for the film industry and the theatre. In the theatre frivolous comedies have been accepted since the times of Aristophanes.
Woody Allen, the author of the script (a well known T.V. comedian who plays one of the major parts in the film) tries to renew the