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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: BILLY WILDER: Irma la Douce (1963)
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sex work, pimps, misogyny, mistreatment, abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, murder, death.
Our final entry into the Billy Wilder series is, well, a real dud. Mostly because no one grabbed a hold of Billy and his new collaborator, I.A.L. Diamond to tell them this movie was overlong and telling far too much story. In fact, the first 2/3 of this movie drag on and on until the final 30 minutes, and all of a sudden it becomes one of the...