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Is any man an Alfie? Ask any girl!
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Alfie
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Alfie - Der Verführer läßt schön grüßen, Der Verführer läßt schön grüßen, 偷情浪子, Der Verführer lässt schön grüssen, Alfie - Szívtelen szívtipró, Alfie le dragueur, Άλφι, ο Σατράπης, אלפי, Fallet Alfie, Элфи, Como Conquistar as Mulheres, Alfie - naisten viettelijä, 阿尔菲, 알피, アルフィー
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Theatrical
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UK15
24 Aug 1966
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USAPG
25 Aug 1966
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Greece13
01 Sep 1966
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Germany18
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Germany
01 Sep 1966
- Theatrical18
Greece
25 Aug 1966
- Theatrical13
UK
29 Mar 1966
- Theatrical15
USA
24 Aug 1966
- TheatricalPG
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haha stop ittt michael caine you are SO funny! *twirls hair* you are SO tall too, how tall are you? wow 6'2 that's sooooo crazy omg that's a whole foot over me wow I feel so little next to you ☺️ your hands must be huge wow they're soooo much bigger than mine look! haha! 😊
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While I suppose it's a step up from the typical celebration of the callous man-child, it feels hard to celebrate acquisition of basic human decency, especially at the cost depicted. (The cost being, of course, the continual degradation of women--turnaround not withstanding--and not the dramatic loss of life, which though affecting, is playing on a certain traditional viewpoint rather than allowing humanity to come through more radical but reasonable means--i.e., that the pseudo-sociopath might see humans in those he wants to fuck, and not "birds.")
Still, Michael Caine is the reason I showed up, and his magnetism works even in this context. The film ignores the fourth wall throughout, but it still remains alarming and fun when the bar fight…
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Alfie so close to Modern Romance made me realize Brooks’ egocentric lead has nothing on Caine’s. Robert Cole may be self-absorbed and delusional, but he certainly isn’t confident. Alfie’s prolific, sexy, and way more dangerous, making the viewing experience far less a comedy. Hornby must have taken notes.
Doubtless anyone could have given a more magnetic, credible performance than Caine, whose natural charm & vain rationality render Alfie bearable. His best yet. Bill Naughton wrote the play & adapted the script himself, so the film’s got a very live theatre quality, like we’re in the same space with Caine, watching him on stage. And the fourth wall breaking is a super effective tug at audience endearment, eliciting greater allure than Brooks’ self-talk in an…
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I was only 14 when this production was released in U.S. theaters ... too young to go see it, although I believe my parents did. In 1966-67, versions of the movie's closing song, "Alfie," were sung in turn by Celia Black, by Cher and by Dion Warwick, with the latter hitting #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, so I certainly knew the tune and its lyrics, but I never really understood the meaning of it till today after finally getting around to seeing Michael Caine in the title role.
Let me start by saying, it is a surprising film in many ways. First, Caine's Alfie ignores "the fourth wall" and speaks directly to the audience right from the opening…
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“I don’t want no bird’s respect. I wouldn’t know what to do with it.”
The Ipcress File got Michael Caine noticed, but it was Alfie that made him a star. He’s so good he transcends the occasional preachiness of the material. Alfie is one of those films that wants to drink its pint and have the glass miraculously refill itself. We are meant to be charmed by the title character as a ladies’ man and appalled by his sexism. Alfie is seemingly able to have his way with all the birds he encounters, but he cares little about them as human beings, call each “it.” So he has to be punished for his caddish ways by losing the affection of…
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Rip me to a 1960s Michael Caine like he would be saying the most heinous things and calling women “it” but I was completely incapable of seeing past his boundless charisma
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A classic film of the swinging 60s, Alfie is often considered one of the best British films of its era. It is so highly regarded that the British Film Institute included it in their list of the 100 best British films of the 20th century. Like many films on that list, I hadn't seen Alfie but it was a film that I had heard many good things about. As a result, I've wanted to check this film out for quite some time. Having now seen Alfie, I think it is a great film. While I wouldn't call it a perfect film by any means, I still think it is a thoroughly entertaining and engrossing watch.…
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An Audience on the Aside
Breaking the fourth wall, dear reader, goes back a long ways--before Brechtian dialectics or Marxist--Groucho, that is--asides. Origins probably go back to the Greek chorus or Shakespearean soliloquies, as everything seems to. The constant shifting back and forth between character and narrator of the same eponymous Alfie, as played by Michael Caine in a star-making role, however, reminds me--well, besides subsequent knockoffs the likes of your Woody Allen neurotics, Ferris Bueller truants, Martin Scorsese sociopaths, or Deadpool superheroes--of Maurice Chevalier. Playing the quintessential Parisian philanderer variation of a Don Juan, he perhaps grasped before anyone else the power of the voice at the dawn of the talkies to appeal directly to audience identification at the…
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