Diary of a Mad Housewife (Perry, 1970): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.15pm
This film, also screening on June 21st, is part of the Wanda and Beyond season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.Time Out review:
Frank Perry and his scriptwriter-wife Eleanor have consistently made
provocative, offbeat films about mental and spiritual reawakening (until
the disastrous Mommie Dearest, that is). Some of them, like the allegorical The Swimmer,
have been intriguing catastrophes; this is one of the more successful.
Bored New York housewife Snodgress tires of smug, over-ambitious husband
Benjamin and his persistent nagging, and decides to gamble on an affair
with narcissistic writer Langella, only to find that relationship
equally dissatisfying. Often very funny in its acerbic swipes at
American success-orientated society (as revealed at a camp art preview
and an unsuccessful party), imaginatively scripted and acted (Richard Benjamin
is superbly repellent), it's an entertaining satire that disappoints
only in the stereotypically limited choices it offers to the woman.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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