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Release Date:
3 August 1965 (USA) moreTagline:
A powerful and bold motion picture...made by adults...with adults...for adults! morePlot:
A beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 8 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(11 articles)
Tony-winning Actor Mokae Dies (From WENN. 16 September 2009, 5:16 AM, PDT)
[TV] Win The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin!
(From JustPressPlay. 12 May 2009, 11:18 AM, PDT)
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One of the very best more (35 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Laurence Harvey | ... | Miles Brand | |
| Dirk Bogarde | ... | Robert Gold | |
| Julie Christie | ... | Diana Scott | |
| José Luis de Villalonga | ... | Prince Cesare della Romita (as Jose Luis De Villalonga) | |
| Roland Curram | ... | Malcolm | |
| Basil Henson | ... | Alec Prosser-Jones | |
| Helen Lindsay | ... | Felicity Prosser-Jones | |
| Carlo Palmucci | ... | Curzio della Romita | |
| Dante Posani | ... | Gino | |
| Umberto Raho | ... | Palucci | |
| Marika Rivera | ... | Woman | |
| Alex Scott | ... | Sean Martin | |
| Ernest Walder | ... | Kurt | |
| Brian Wilde | ... | Willett | |
| Pauline Yates | ... | Estelle Gold |
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128 minCountry:
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1.66 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Hong Kong:IIA | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:X (original rating) | UK:15 (video rating)Fun Stuff
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The first film role of James Cossins. moreGoofs:
Continuity: In a compartment on a train after their visit with the writer Southgate, Diana and Robert kiss. Both of Robert's hands touch her face in a close shot. When the angle changes to a shot from the corridor looking into the compartment, they are still embracing but Robert has a cigarette in his right hand which is resting on his knee. moreQuotes:
Robert Gold: You're just a whore baby, nothing but a whore and I don't take whores in taxi's moreFAQ
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I find this movie unique. If you have read of, or can remember the mid-1960s, you know that the character Julie Christie plays was absolutely the one adored by everyone- by all who considered themselves "in" and "trendy" and "modern". And she is completely taken apart by this movie.
I can think of only one other movie at any time in any language that so thoroughly demolishes the pretensions of the very people whom the smart set aspired to be at the time the movie was coming out. Amazingly that movie was 'Alfie', that came out about that same year. (A movie like La Dolce Vita is in a different mode - the people are the new meretricious post-war haute bourgeois class - a frequent target through history, and in that way, like The Ice Storm or Interiors or American Beauty as an attack on such values).
Virtually all "serious satires" take on targets that the "chattering classes" consider suspect - the hidebound, the hypocritical, the "authority figures" whom youth wish to overturn. Not this one. Astonishingly, in the midst of mod London, the very middle of the swinging 60s, you get a movie that looks at its non-committal "live for the moment" hedonistic experimentation and blasts its moral character with a cannon.
This just doesn't happen in movies - compare say, "If" or "O Lucky Man" or say, "Network" (to name three I like), and you'll see the targets as the familiar powers that be - from school to television. But Julie Christie's character is what people thought was new and wonderful - and its superficiality is blown to bits.
It's as if a movie now were to look at a poor black woman raising a child alone - and blast her for any behavior that contributed to this state. It just won't be done - the sympathies are all running FOR that character. So were the sympathies for the Julie Christie character in that time - and the movie is very very brave in running so utterly against the current.
I just love the movie - it's a step up from Schlesinger's earlier ones -the script is superb, the performances are excellent without exception. (Lawrence Harvey is particularly good - but of course it's Christie's movie).
Do see it. It's also full of wonderfully imaginative touches - such as the ending scene.