Joanna (1968 film)

Joanna is a 1968 British comedy-drama film directed and written by Michael Sarne, and starring Geneviève Waïte, Christian Doermer, Calvin Lockhart and Donald Sutherland.

Sarne said that "With an American company you're artistically free … To make a good film you need a touch of the romantic, a streak of the visionary, and you can't have that with your financier tripping over your heels all the time".

[7] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A tiresome tale for tiny tots about a country mouse who comes to town and has a fine old time before returning sadder and possibly wiser to Daddy.

This unnecessarily protracted punishing of a very dead quadruped rejoices in a tediously childish heroine, some very discreet nudity, a fairly neatly observed piece of police routine, tepid dream sequences, and some distinguished photography from Walter Lassally.

It is a little more difficult to find anything to say in favour of the director, Michael Sarne, who seems uncertain whether he wants to make his mark as the British Lelouch or the embalmer of Swinging London.