Word: billye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For both Billy Liar (an exploration of the caricatural fantasy life of its young hero) and this plush Boston Art Haus are variations upon the charming cliches of the capitalist imagination.
Billy's real life is crammed to the brim with that dreary banality which has become cinematically synonymous with the British middle-class. To escape the drabness of his clerkship at the local mortician's and the carpings of his parents and crotchety grandma, Billy manufactures absurd complications in his...
Next, Billy embroils himself in simultaneous engagements with two horrid girls who hold no appeal for him. Prissy Barbara, a vacuous townie whose jaw drops when he puts his hand on her knee, and Rita, a shrew with large breasts and a gelding tongue, are constantly on the point of...
But Billy's main escape is the life of his imagination, the land of Ambrosia--a fanciful municipality which he liberates and defends. In his humdrum real world, Billy is office boy and small time wheeler dealer. In Ambrosia he is Army General and poet laureate, capitalist-magnate, dictator, and...
Halfway through the film, he meets Liz--the penultimate vision of Lime--that imaginary 'Cliffie you half-expect to encounter un-accompanied in the early-morning Bick. Frankly, alluringly, incredibly, she offers herself to Billy. She, too, has cherished a fantasy nether world; this is their greatest bond. They plan...