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Accident (1967)

Director: Joseph Losey

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From Time Out Film Guide

A stunningly confident, oblique study of six people (three men, two wives, one girl) and the way they tear each other to pieces emotionally amid the droning calm of an Oxford summer, as urbanity is ruffled by an accident that begins to send out lazy tendrils of hostility and suspicion. The performances are superb all round. With Losey's camera taking its cue for reticence from Pinter's script (adapted from the novel by Nicholas Mosley), Accident is an eminently civilised film, sometimes criticised for distilling a bland classicism out of the baroque provocations that made Losey's work from The Criminal to The Servant so excitingly unpredictable to watch. But what surprises is the extent to which, in discovering the real pain and the areas of darkness lurking beneath the surface of these donnish lives, Losey in fact reverts to the mood and methods of his early American masterpiece, The Prowler. TM.

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