Modesty Blaise

Joseph Losey’s camp, kitsch, cult spy caper spoofs the Swinging Sixties in some style.

  • Director

    Joseph Losey

  • With

    Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews

  • UK 1966. 119min. Total running time 127min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    12A

This adaptation of the beloved comic strip about a female international spy offers a mind-bending pastiche of ‘Swinging Sixties’ clichés. Vitti plays the titular agent – her first English-speaking role – and dazzles in an array of sensational costumes and poses, ably supported by fellow ’60s icons Stamp and Bogarde. Witty, subversive and highly silly, the film has become a cult – and camp – classic.

Screening with a BBC interview with Monica Vitti (1966, 8min).

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