I'm not sure how much cocaine was snorted and acid was dropped during the production of 1968's "Candy," but it wasn't nearly enough. A psychedelic journey into amorous encounters and farcical adventures, "Candy" is meant to represent the shifting creative interests of the time, taking a freewheeling look at sex and control, with a screenplay by Buck Henry trying to make sense of a novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg. It's loud, wild, and carefree movie, and it's an absolute mess that mistakes length for importance. "Candy" is difficult to digest, more appealing as a road map of bad ideas than the mind-bomb experience director Christian Marquand intends to create. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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