Carnal Knowledge (Nichols, 1971): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.30pm
This rarely screened film is being presented from a new 4K restoration for the first time in the UK, via Animus Magazine.
Chicago Reader review:
Director Mike Nichols tries for a European visual patina (the
cinematographer is Giuseppe Rotunno, Fellini’s man) but the structure is
pure American short-hit—the style of the blackout sketch and comic
book. Jack Nicholson, here in the first flush of his stardom, plays the
shallow stud hero in an impenetrable combination of masochism and
snottiness, though Art Garfunkel and Ann-Margret are quietly charming in
support (or should I say relief). The picture has its moments of
chilling insight, though essentially it is one more quaint early-70s
stab at an American art cinema that never materialized.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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