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Groupie
Girl
Made in 1971 and directed by the amazingly
neglected Derek Ford, this British coming
of age film has been strangely repackaged
as a sexploitation film. Sure there is some
nudity and sex, and its director made such
classic sex films as Sexplorer and The Sex
Express, but it's far from the skin soaked
celluloid of much of the early 70's grindhouse
films. It's really a pretty right on youth
film about a girl who dreams of meeting
rock stars. She becomes a groupie and goes
from band to band to band and eventually
ends up addicted to drugs and surrounded
by tragedy. In many ways it’s a damnation
of the British rock scene of the 70’s,
presenting the rock stars as drug using
assholes (what a shock!). The soundtrack
is about as good as they get (if you're
into late 60's garage rock) and the film
is actually quite good, despite its now
bizarre exploitation associations. It seems
to have packaged much of the mood and feeling
of the late 60's pretty well and it holds
up nicely as a document of that time. A
highly recommended lost film.
video source
quality rating: B |
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Groupie
Girl
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Color/
90 Min./ 1971 |
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