Not Tonight, Darling
Not Tonight, Darling is on a list headed “British Smut 1959-1979” on the website of arthouse streamer Mubi. Fair enough: the film is British, it’s from 1971 and the smut quotient is high. Though it does make claims to be more than just a movie for the “dirty mac” brigade, as the furtive masturbators in the UK’s suburban cinemas were called, with themes of voyeurism and alienation tucked inside a poignant drama about a failing marriage. Though strip out the nudity and is there anything much left at all? Another claim to fame is that it’s the cinematic debut of Fiona Richmond, who became something of a fixture in Britporn of the 1970s … Read more
