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Four in the Morning (1965)
Failed pretentious faux-Parisian "wannabe" existentialism...
There are several very good reasons for watching this film - the use of The Thames as is it's focal point, and the location shooting generally, from a historical vantage point, wonderful B/W photography, Judi Dench's performance and John Barry's (surprisingly) subtle score are all to be enjoyed. The script, though, is awful, and to sit through it becomes a chore. The couple who steal a boat and joy-ride up the river are completely unbelievable and just annoying, and the clunky symbolism of the recovered body particularly pointless. There are excellent British "Kitchen-Sink" films out there and it is wrong, I feel, to denigrate them by including this among their rank. It's more an attempt to clone the French "New-Wave" and those aspects fail disastrously.