There are only two ways to beat a cliche: either make fun of itor do it better than anyone else. Michael Same does both with Joannaand thereby makes the most dazzling directorial debut of the year.
His heroine (Genevieve Waite) is a Sassoon-style adolescent come down to London to study art. Soon artists start studying Joanna. She plays musical beds with every boy who rubs against her, makes friends with the world, and generally lives without any of the conventional moral hang-ups. The trouble is that the freedom bag turns out to be a prison...
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