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Nightfall Films/EMI, 89 mins

Cinemas Jan 2010, DVD Feb 2010

I wrote and directed this feature. EMI wanted to showcase Immodesty Blaize and her Tease Show. My job was to shape the whole film. I decided to place the performances at the heart and weaved the documentary elements around them.

So the extraordinary interviewees, the history and archive sections, my chats with Immodesty while she was getting ready, these sequences and more all served to give a fresh insight into this art form and help audiences appreciate the performances more.

"Alison Grist’s documentary is a history of the theatrical art of burlesque" The Sunday Times, 3 stars

"Upmarket striptease for Mamma Mia audiences...cheerfully entertaining" The Guardian, 3 stars

"This well-made documentary offers a thorough look at the dance form’s resurgent popularity... there is much to enjoy here." Empire, 3 stars

"A titillating peak into the sequin spangled history of those curvaceous ladies." Metro

"Immodesty Blaize... the striptease sensation lifts the veil on the persistently fashionable scene, providing a focus for writer/director Alison Grist’s playful documentary." Bizarre magazine

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