{"id":77,"date":"2006-05-30T22:33:52","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pouringbeans.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2006-05-30T22:35:27","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T21:35:27","slug":"movie-review-confessions-of-a-driving-instructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Movie review: Confessions of a Driving Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good evening. One of my final year lectures is British Cinema, and as part of my exam revision, I have watched Confessions of a Driving Instructor<\/em> in full. Student life is hard. This might even become a regular feature.<\/p>\n

Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976) dir. Cohen
\n<\/strong>Starring Robin Asquith, Lynda Bellingham (her off the Oxo adverts)<\/p>\n

Rating: 2\/5
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This is the first “Confessions” movie I have seen but it’s actually the third one in the series, which sees Tim (Robin Asquith) and his brother set up a driving school. Hilarity, of course, ensues.<\/p>\n

This is possibly the worst film I have seen in a long time. It’s one of many British films of the 70s that were made on no budget whatsoever in order to make some quick cash, though the “Confessions” series is unusual in that it was funded by the US studio Columbia. Even so, the budget is almost non-existant and was mostly spent on insuring one large Bentley that is used in several reckless chase scenes and in convincing hordes of young women to briefly appear naked. Even Lynda Bellingham – later the prim and proper mum of the Oxo household – gets her baps out. In total there are flashes of gratuitous nudity from about six women.<\/p>\n

The production values are a joke. It’s so bad it’s almost funny, but not quite. The funniest thing is how inexplicably eager women are to hop into bed with our gurning protagonist.<\/p>\n

The point of the film seems to be to give hope to otherwise unattractive, geeky men who have no luck with women, by convincing them that most women are sex-starved, adulterous creatures who will get undressed at the first opportunity, have sex in any location and are willing to try it on with any unattractive geeky driving instructor who might come their way. The majority of them also have large dangly boobs.<\/p>\n

All of the above is, of course, not true in real life, which is a tremendous disappointment. And so I give this film only 2\/5 jam jars.<\/p>\n

This film on IMDB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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