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Bookmark this pageDarling (1965)
Director: John Schlesinger
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From Time Out Film Guide
No one need look further than Darling for a succinct guide to the reasons for the rapid decline of the British 'New Wave' in the '60s: the film supports the argument that the movement was stillborn. Frederic Raphael's script tramples its own studied issues (Third World poverty, corrupt Western values, jet-set alienation) under its equally studied Sophisticated Characterisation. Schlesinger's direction is a leaden rehash of ideas from Godard, Antonioni and Bergman, which nonetheless contrives to remain firmly rooted in British theatre of the Royal Court school. Excruciatingly embarrassing at the time, it now looks grotesquely pretentious and pathetically out of touch with the realities of the life-styles that it purports to represent.Author: TR
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- Posted on Jul 29 2007 00:56 Can anyone tell me if this is the film where Julie Christie was accused of having the idea that fidelity was having only one man in her bed at the same time? It's driving me crazy trying to remember which film this scene took place, on a escalator
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Cast & crew
Director: John Schlesinger
Producer: Joseph Janni
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey, Julie Christie, Roland Curram, Alex Scott, Basil Henson full cast
Duration: 127 mins
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