Victor/Victoria (1982)

Victoria celebrates a successful performance Blake Edwards' period comedy: Singer Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews) is broke in Paris in 1934. She meets broke and openly gay Toddy (Robert Preston). He has the idea to transform her into a Polish Count and then present her as a female impersonator. She's very successful and apparently everyone thinks she's a guy. The gay love ambiguities are fully explored.

It follows the story line of its German predecessor Viktor und Viktoria fairly faithfully, but updates the style; in my opinion not a patch on the earlier version, though.


The travesty cabaret There is an interesting travesty cabaret in a club scene; with four performers on stage, each of them has a male outfit on one side and female on the other; two of them are facing the camera in the still, and two are facing away. It's cleverly enough done.


Robert Preston takes the stage Robert Preston himself takes the stage in a longish (and rather pointless) drag routine.

HF 1999


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