To find employment, Michaeldisguised himself as his own cross-dressing alter-ego named ""Dorothy Michaels"" - a middle-aged feminist with padding, and won a role in a soap opera.The 111 minute arthouse film was set in mid-60s London, a locale fairly unfamiliar to the director, although well known at he time for its trends including the Beatles (and their mop-head hair-styles), stick-thin fashion model Twiggy, and the mod styles at Carnaby Street.With no Academy Award nominations.With a production budget of $78 million, and box-office gross receipts of $93 million (domestic) and $209 million (worldwide).Composed of first-person video footage (from security surveillance cameras, news footage, digital camcorders, YouTube, cell-phone cameras, etc.(And this film marked the third and final time that Tourneur worked with cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca.