Product: Get to Know Your Rabbit [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
The beginnings of a great filmmaker
Even if it's not the first Brian De Palma's film (The Wedding Party, Hi, Mom! and Dyonnisos 69 were made before), is the first one for a major. And it shows the influences both of the Nouvelle Vague school (De Palma always was a hugue fan of Jean-Luc Godard's work) and the best american filmmakers (Hitchcock, of course, but Welles, Hawks and the animation geniuses on the Warner's Golden Era). Get To Know Your Rabbit is a witty, well made, political and social comedy, with a lot of fun and a precise sense of satire. Even if the "message" it's now a little dated -just a little, the world has not improve itself as much as we could wanted- it's still delivers excellent performances and a comic view both of the entertainment world and the capitalism system. And, of course, you has Orson Welles and John Astin at his finest. This film was made prior to Phantom of the Paradise, so you can see all the style of one of the best american filmmakers on the last four decades.