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Bookmark this pageSecrets (1971)
Director: Philip Saville
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From Time Out Film Guide
Drearily familiar stuff as a young married couple (Powell and Bisset), still in love but bored with each other, each enjoy a brief encounter (with Knight and Oscarsson, respectively), and then return - surprise, surprise - renewed and refreshed to their marriage. The acting is fair, but script and direction are dismayingly obvious. This was the first feature shot in Super-16mm, a process designed to reduce costs and (not that you would guess from this sample of pure predictability) 'liberate' film-makers from conventional pressures.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Philip Saville
Producer: John Hanson
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Powell, Per Oscarsson, Shirley Knight, Martin C Thurley full cast
Duration: 107 mins
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