When the film is not too grim to be funny, it is too funny to be grim.
The stage performances are pleasantly kinky, and even inventive...though the story's unvoiced implication is that burlesque might have had its day as a professional concern.
It’s a hugely energetic and appealing film, with a saucy wit and melancholy caught on the fly.
If On Tour is finally too transient, too light on luggage, to be fully successful, it has a keen sense of the France we rarely get to see on screen.
An enjoyably meandering character study of its protagonist.
Highly watchable.
A film of merely incidental pleasures.
On Tour is a freewheeling piece, likely too freewheeling for some, with an assured touch and a nice running gag about Joachim’s allergic reaction to background noise.
A rather more sedate and realistic insight into the revival of interest in vaudevillian-style raunchiness.
Burlesque--Another go at the no-clothes show
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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