Darling (1965)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 127m
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey
Synopsis:
A successful model and society princess tells the story of her rise from middle class anonymity, through her affair with a BBC arts critic, but her anodyne narration masks a life of selfishness, manipulation and a desperate need to be loved.
Review:
Schlesinger's film, which has dated far worse then others of the time, such as The Pumpkin Eater, is at once an unofficial sequel to Billy Liar, with the Christie character acquiring a harder, less sympathetic shell, and an epitome of the vacuous, preening, hedonistic binge that was the sixties high life. The early scenes with Bogarde work well still, but patience with Diana wanes as she goes on her continental misadventures. Inevitably, what was risqué, even shocking, at the time seems rather coy now.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 127m
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey
Synopsis:
A successful model and society princess tells the story of her rise from middle class anonymity, through her affair with a BBC arts critic, but her anodyne narration masks a life of selfishness, manipulation and a desperate need to be loved.
Review:
Schlesinger's film, which has dated far worse then others of the time, such as The Pumpkin Eater, is at once an unofficial sequel to Billy Liar, with the Christie character acquiring a harder, less sympathetic shell, and an epitome of the vacuous, preening, hedonistic binge that was the sixties high life. The early scenes with Bogarde work well still, but patience with Diana wanes as she goes on her continental misadventures. Inevitably, what was risqué, even shocking, at the time seems rather coy now.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 127m
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey
Synopsis:
A successful model and society princess tells the story of her rise from middle class anonymity, through her affair with a BBC arts critic, but her anodyne narration masks a life of selfishness, manipulation and a desperate need to be loved.
Review:
Schlesinger's film, which has dated far worse then others of the time, such as The Pumpkin Eater, is at once an unofficial sequel to Billy Liar, with the Christie character acquiring a harder, less sympathetic shell, and an epitome of the vacuous, preening, hedonistic binge that was the sixties high life. The early scenes with Bogarde work well still, but patience with Diana wanes as she goes on her continental misadventures. Inevitably, what was risqué, even shocking, at the time seems rather coy now.