Performance

Modesty Blaise

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At MoMA, Joseph Losey’s 1966 spy comedy *Modesty Blaise* returns as a time capsule of mid‑’60s pop espionage. Monica Vitti plays a sharp, self-possessed adventurer opposite Terence Stamp, with Dirk Bogarde as the adversary, framed by Johnny Dankworth’s score and a period theme song. The film’s New York premiere history is not firmly documented, but its afterlife in NYC repertory contexts speaks to how it sits between comic-strip fantasy and art‑house experiment. Its tone often feels knowingly out of step, which is part of its cultural record.