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6.3/10 • 110

1967-02-091h 45m

RomanceDrama

The story of a love triangle... and the four people trapped in it!

Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.

Directors
Joseph Losey
Editors
Reginald Beck

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  1. Dirk Bogarde

    Dirk Bogarde

    Stephen

  2. Stanley Baker

    Stanley Baker

    Charley

  3. Jacqueline Sassard

    Jacqueline Sassard

    Anna

  4. Michael York

    Michael York

    William

  5. Vivien Merchant

    Vivien Merchant

    Rosalind

  6. Delphine Seyrig

    Delphine Seyrig

    Francesca

  7. Alexander Knox

    Alexander Knox

    Provost

  8. Ann Firbank

    Ann Firbank

    Laura

  9. Brian Phelan

    Brian Phelan

    Police Sergeant

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CinemaSerf

Feb 10, 2023

6/10

Dirk Bogarde is a philosophy professor at Oxford University - happily married with two children; and another on the way. He has a favourite student - Michael York who is keen on a newcomer; the glamorous Austrian Jacqueline Sassard. They have a Sunday lunch with an additional guest in Stanley Baker - a fellow professor who is struggling with his own marriage; as well as his - envy evoking - television career. It's a sort of intellectual menage-à-trois - Bogarde fancies his Austrian student but she has eyes on both York and Baker... Even the consumption of excesses of booze at the lunch/dinner/supper doesn't inject much into this. It lacks any degree of edginess or depth - but merely provides us with a spotlight on the bored, affected, educational middle-classes that doesn't really shine anything beyond highlighting the shallowness of the characters created by Nicholas Mosley - and not really enhanced much by Harold Pinter.. The performances, especially from Baker, are good but there just isn't enough substance to generate a spark!

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$600,000.00
Revenue
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Keywords
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