It is a sensual, surreal fantasy about a beautiful woman and her passion for peaches.
Plot
The film charts the coming of age of a clever and beautiful girl and her fetish for fruit. In search of kindred spirits of like intellect, she goes to live in the city, but finds herself cleaning in "the Ministry". She falls in love, and the peaches become less important as her love grows. Subsequently she transfers her craving to pickled onions.[3]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This coyly clever production would have been best described by the now outmoded adjective "twee". The initial circumstances, outlined in the opening sequences to the accompaniment of a commentary delivered by Peter Ustinov in his best dry manner, promise something sardonically amusing, but it is all developed in a very rib-nudging way. The theme loses direction, and becomes vague and pointless, with speeded-up photography jokes."[4]
Home media
The film was released as an extra on the Blu-rays Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema (BFI, 2018)[5] and Die, Monster, Die! (BFI, 2024).[6]
References
↑"The Peaches". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
↑"The Peaches". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
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