As part of the "Pride Summer" series:

Please note: This week's film is in the Community Room at the Weston Public Library.

VICTOR/VICTORIA (1982) 132 minutes

In a film that stylistically looks as if it were made in 1965, Blake Edwards offers a film that was ahead of the Hollywood mainstream when it was released in 1982. Set in 1934 Paris, the film stars Julie Andrews and Robert Preston as a stranded soprano and aging gay cabaret performer who come up with a scheme to pass off Andrews as a female impersonator. Soon she is the toast of Paris, but things get complicated when she catches the eye of Chicago mobster James Garner and the anger of his moll Lesley Ann Warren.

BE ADVISED–– This film is rated PG-13, with smoking, drinking, profanity, brawling, slapstick (Edwards directed The Pink Panther) sexual quandaries (Edwards also directed Breakfast at Tiffany’s) farcical homophobia, outrageous French stereotypes (once again, Edwards directed The Pink Panther), and gender-confusion (albeit with a stacked-deck).