‘Peppermint Soda’: Diane Kurys’ French Coming-Of-Age Classic Is An Essential Criterion Channel Watch

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Nothing is accidental in a film as keenly observed as Diane Kurys’ “Peppermint Soda” (now streaming on the Criterion Channel), but the opening title song seems a particularly important choice.

She uses Cliff Richard’s “Living Doll,” and not only to set the picture’s early-1960s scene. The orchestration does that; the lyrics do more.

Got myself a cryin’, talkin’, sleepin’, walkin’, livin’ dollGot to do my best to please her just ’cause she’s a livin’ dollGot a roamin’ eye and that is why she satisfies my soulGot the one and only walkin’, talkin’, livin’ doll Take a look at her hair, it’s realIf you don’t believe what I say, just feelI’m gonna lock her up in a trunk so no big hunkCan steal her away from me This way of seeing women – not as a.