Film Forum

U.K., 1965
Directed by John Schlesinger
Starring Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay,
Best Costume Design, 1965
Approx. 128 min.

“Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in the bed at the same time!” Swinging super Model Julie Christie, the daah-ling of jet-set London, recounts her own climb to the top, including liaisons with TV journalist Dirk Bogarde and elegantly jaded Laurence Harvey.

Scanned in 4K 16-bit by FILMFINITY, UK, using the best 35mm film elements available. Presented by Studiocanal and supervised by Mariana Ledesma and Jahanzeb Hayat.

A RIALTO PICTURES RELEASE

Reviews

“A slashing social satire and also a devastating spoof of the synthetic, stomach-turning output of the television-advertising age—it is loaded with startling expositions and lacerating wit.”
– Bosley Crowther, The New York Times

“A near-documentary portrait of a smooth, rather ugly society in transition.”
– Philip French, The Guardian

“John Schlesinger’s winsome adventure from 1965 still has verve and ambition, a romantic satire of swinging London now on rerelease for its 60th anniversary. The wry, Oscar®-winning screenplay from Frederic Raphael imports and anglicises the influence of Godard, Resnais, Varda, and the French New Wave…”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian  

“A feminist picaresque, as relevant as BARBIE or PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, and the moral emptiness that accompanies her vertiginous rise.”
– The Times (UK)

“A tragicomedy about how moral quality can fail any one of us in the contemporary world—not by much but just by enough. In the end, this is Schlessinger’s picture—one of those really fine works of bravura direction which for the most part resists the temptation to underline or otherwise call attention to its own skill. Schlesinger’s talent, like Miss Christie's, is for wonderfully elaborate embroidery, deepening, enriching, and further illuminating the basic thread of his work. It is complex but never confusing, for his touch is near perfect.”
– Richard Schickel, TIME