Petulia (Lester, 1968): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.40pm
This 35mm presentation, part of the John Barry season at BFI Southbank, also screens on February 3rd. You can find all the details here.
Chicago Reader review:
One of the finest films of and about the 60s, Richard Lester's romantic
comedy tells the story of the relationship between a recently divorced
surgeon (George C. Scott) and an unhappily married San Francisco
socialite (Julie Christie) and takes deft, unexpected turns into the
tragic and terrifying. Lester's volatile, quick-cut style finds its most
expressive application in his description of a world fatally fragmented
into rich and poor, past and present, compassion and indifference.
Scott has never been more powerful or so subtle: his weary but still
hopeful physician is a Shakespearean figure, cloaked in a majestic
sadness. But the film belongs to Christie, who earns the Oscar she won
for Darling with a plangent portrayal of a woman struggling to
transcend her own shallowness. With Richard Chamberlain, Shirley Knight,
Arthur Hill, and Joseph Cotten; the excellent screenplay is the work of
Lawrence Marcus, and Nicolas Roeg did the cinematography (1968). 105
min.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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