The Girlie Bar

The Girlie Bar (1976)

05 Oct 1976 • Drama • 1h 46m
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Gee, and the packaging was so attractive! A Shaw Brothers release so I knew there would be fighting, and there was. From the title I assumed there would be some sex and there was but I was not prepared for a turgid melodrama that moves so slowly. One interesting feature was that to cut costs the brothel set relied a lot on the way it was shot and the colours and there were times when this reminded me of a Bava! Apologies for that but it was just that rather effective use of primary colours. I guess the other vaguely interesting thing of note was that the film includes Lin Chen-chi who had just completed 'Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold'. The film thinks it has something serious to say about the plight of women in Chinese society but I reckon rather it wanted to have it's cake and eat it and managed to fail in both respects.

Mar Lo
Director
Lan Shu, On Szeto
Writer
Feng Yeh, Ping Chen, Chen-Chi Lin
Starring

Language: Mandarin
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Country: Hong Kong
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6.0

IMDb (26 votes)
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