Darling

Darling
by John Schlesinger

Darling
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Actor: Dirk Bogarde, Jos? Luis de Villalonga, Julie Christie, Laurence Harvey, Roland Curram
Director: John Schlesinger
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

Movie Reviews of Darling

Movie Review: Not What I Assumed it Would Be
Summary: 5 Stars

I've learned that same old lesson again: Never assume. I've always avoided this movie because I thought it was going to be a lot of 60's bands and old music and a lot of girls in mini skirts and straw-like bangs, looking like a documentary on the first wives of the Beatles.

Instead, it was interesting, thoughtful, contemplative - and gorgeously scored.

I particularly liked the way the filmmakers didn't spell out everything. The movie rockets from a very brief scene from the Christie character's childhood, straight to her adulthood. I liked how the filmmakers respected the audience's intelligence and time by alowing it to figure out how a woman like that gets to be a woman like that. It makes for a more interactive theatrical experience.

Bogarde and Harvey bring that same inscrutible sexuality that they brought to other roles. We know they want Christie only by the way she reacts to them, not by the way they behave. Their pursuit of her isn't a chase - it's a stroll.

Christie's portrayal of a scrambling young woman doing the most with what little she has, embodies, I think, many young women - and this is what ultimately makes the movie heartbreaking. I would compare her plight to that of a child who is very tall for his age. People expect him to have the intelligence, vocabulary and maturity of an older child, and feel mystified and betrayed when the child fails to meet their expectations.

Summary of Darling

Julie Christie turns in an astonishing, Oscar?(r)-winning* performance in this "sensitive and stunning tale" (Cue) about wanting it alland getting exactly what you wish for. Directed by John Schlesinger from an Oscar?(r)-winning* screenplay by Frederic Raphael, Darling is "a slashing social satire loaded with startling expositions and lacerating wit" (The New York Times). Ambitious model Diana Scott (Christie) uses her relationships to turn a low-rent career into a high-gear smorgasbord of jet-setting, love-making and the pursuit of hedonistic happiness. But as she moves from one fiery tryst with a TV writer (Dirk Bogarde) to another with a suave playboy (Laurence Harvey) and yet another with a crown prince, she finds that happiness is the one thing that may elude her forever. *1965: Actress (Christie), Original Screenplay, Costume Design
Julie Christie's miracle year of 1965 (she was also in Doctor Zhivago) was capped by a best-actress Oscar? for this sardonic take on Swinging London. Looking about as gorgeous as women get, Christie ascends the ladder of social success, trampling everybody in her path--an ascent that allows writer Frederic Raphael and director John Schlesinger to slash away at the morally bankrupt world that would enable such a person to triumph. Cynics might suggest that Schlesinger's approach, rife with the experiments of New Wave filmmaking, is nearly as empty and showy as the world it describes... which may be why this movie seems more dated than, say, Richard Lester's films from the '60s. Still, with Christie getting generous and suave support from two of the top British stars of the day, Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey, Darling remains a watchable missive from a volatile era. --Robert Horton

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