Permissive

Ghastly U.K. indie
Since Mr. Cooksey has provided a rundown of BFI's Blu-ray contents, I'll focus on the package's main feature: Essentially a plotless, 90-minute acid-rock music montage/psychedelic cautionary tale, 'Permissive' is as much a test of one's nerves as it is an exploitative ode to London's vacuous hippie-era groupie culture. That isn't to say there isn't something for certain tastes-- a snapshot of Britain's seedier side circa 1970; abundant nudity and passionless softcore sex; omnipresent soundtrack by and gig footage of, among other noisemakers, a really hairy bar band called Forever More, which could as easily have been named Jerry Garcia Fronting Led Zeppelin and They Only Know Four Songs (later to re-form as The Average White Band!)-- but for the sentient moviegoer, this is independent filmmaking at its most dreary and self-indulgent. Poorly shot, poorly acted, poorly written, poorly conceived, 'Permissive' earns 1/2 star for a couple down-and-dirty guitar riffs by my new favorite...

Ever wonderful lady parts
Amazing in its independent film production. And I mean that in a true Indy film fashion, low quality, mediocre acting.

Just bad
Really boring, very slow moving, did not care about the characters at all. The plot line seemed thin at best

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