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Bookmark this pageMoments (1973)
Director: Peter Crane
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From Time Out Film Guide
Figuratively, the story about the length of drop on the rope: a man in an Eastbourne hotel is seemingly rescued from suicide by a young girl. With the Grand Hotel setting, intermingling of past and present (real or imagined), shifting levels of 'reality', and the use of the out-of-season resort as a symbol for inner desolation, it is not hard to see the influence of Resnais. And such pretensions are surprisingly welcome after the sub-11 plus level of most British movies. It's all the more pity that the film's central relationship cannot sustain credibility: the plot depends on too much verbal exposition; explanations are too predictable for an essay on uncertainty; and the characters move from clichéd stodgy middle-age and freewheeling youth to stereotyped fugitives from deadening routine.Author: CPe
Cast & crew
Director: Peter Crane
Cast: Keith Michell, Angharad Rees, Bill Fraser, Jeannette Sterke, Donald Hewlett, Keith Bell full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 92 mins
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