Cinema: Flinch by Flinch

The movie camera can do anything the human eye can do except flinch; that faculty is left to the audience. In What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?, Director Allen Funt's candid camera remains as fixed and beady as any voyeur's. It is the viewers who must proceed, flinch by flinch, to the fadeout.

As the title promises, a parade of the naked—male and female—are exposed to the unsuspecting, with entirely predictable results. An undraped lady waits for an elevator; men emerge, confront her and gape. One even offers his jacket. For a sex lecture, the lady instructor arrives in the...

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