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Darling [1965]
from Optimum Home Entertainment
starring Dirk Bogarde, Julie Christie, Laurence Harvey
directed by John Schlesinger

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Bleak and Beautiful
  This film may be set in swinging London, but it's a world away from the good natured celebrations of coolness and fabness that films whose action was centred on Carnaby Street tended to be. In Schlesinger's London, marriage to your first love - however settled and however many kds you have - will inevitably end in divorce when you meet someone younger and better dressed. You may be a Nobel winning novelist - but you will still give away your most valued possessions in return from some flattery from a pretty... more info

• Dark Glamour
  This is one of the best films of the 1960s and Julie Christie righly won an Oscar for it. I was surprised at the negative review because this film was utterly ground-breaking at the time (1965) and the performaces from all the cast are wonderful. The portrait of swinging London is gripping - the parties, the shallowness and the sense that the world was changing is intense - London was the most fashionable place on earth at the time and the film really captures that spirit. See this film if you want a... more info

• Utter bilge
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  To think that so much money and fine actors were wasted on this sixties 'glam film'. No wonder Michael Parkinson said the sixties were a shallow meaningless time. It hurt me at the time he said it - but judging by this film it's true. Story: glamorous girl sleeps her way to the top and finds it's lonely there. When you think what great realistic films they made in the fifties, this was typical of the kind of bilge they served up to us in the sixties (and still do). It is a true but shallow story... more info

• Flawed Beauty
  "If I could just feel....complete." This is the main dilemma facing Diana, the central character of this film. Brilliantly played by Julie Christie, this beautiful, manipulative woman is both adorable and yet hateful. In some respects she appears to be desperate for love and affection, yet in her desire to find these she thinks nothing of breaking up marriages and also the hearts of the men in her life.
  'Darling' must have been quite groundbreaking for it's day. It depicts the rather shady Modelling... more info

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