WATCH PARTY: Taking Off (1971) dir. Miloš Forman @ Mary Pretlow Library

We will be in the 2nd floor conference room, to the left as you get off the elevator/stairs.

RUNTIME: 93 minutes

SYNOPSIS: “Taking Off” is set in the United States in the late 1960s. Young Jeannie runs away from home to New York City with the hopes of becoming a singer. In New York City she meets a community of hippies and bohemians. Meanwhile Jeannie’s suburban parents search for their missing daughter. The parents’ effort to find and understand their daughter turns into a series of tragicomic and embarrassing situations.

BLURBS:
"It has fallen to a Czech visitor to take the curse off films about the generation gap. [Forman] really likes America. He could probably show us raw nerve ends in a drum-majorette rally." - Penelope Gilliatt, The New Yorker

"Forman plays on this conflict of styles, catching at all the pedantic nuances of American jargon and pop culture to create a universally recognisable image of man's unfounded optimism." - Jan Dawson, The Financial Times

"Mr. Forman's specialty is tender farce played out in what are, essentially, very bleak circumstances." - Vincent Canby, The New York Times