The Naked Kiss (1964)

Kinda feel dumb for believing for a couple of minutes that Kelly was actually a traveling champagne saleswoman.

Chris

Intense social paranoia magnified until it's manifested physically, the very shame of being found out something which becomes both the haunt and the refuge. There's a strange undercurrent beneath the entire thing which lends the film an uncanniness in all but its heroine, a…

reibureibu

I had a pretty good idea of where this was going by the end of the first act, but what surprised me so much is just how gross it was willing to be. This is pure pulp, a high-class roughie that actually empathizes with its female lead, without all of the requisite sexual…

Liz

Criterion Collection Spine #18 A woman trying to move on from her life as an escort travels to a new town to get a fresh start, but just can't seem to escape the shadows of her past. "We call it a naked kiss; the sign of a pervert!" I am finding that you can always…

Justin Peterson

Action! - Three Auteurs: The Narrative Tabloids Of Samuel Fuller Of all of Fuller's films this was the one I was most looking forward to seeing mostly because of the great reception it has garnered. And I must say that, in many ways, I think it did live up to those…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

The Naked Kiss defies easy explanation. To which genre does it even belong? The closest thing we can call it is a “neo-noir”, and while Stanley Cortez’s brilliant cinematography does at times recall the sharpened spaces of something like The Night of the Hunter, the…

Carlos Valladares

"Film is like a battleground. There's love, hate, action, violence, death... in one word: emotion."

Will Sloan

i cant believe sam fuller knew about #pizzagate

pd187

The Naked Kiss begins with a bald prostitute beating a man senseless for $75. We then flash forward three years and she's stepping off a bus in a small town, hair all grown back. The switch from trash to wholesome culminates in her getting a job at a hospital for disabled…

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