Darling (1965 film)
- Laurence Harvey: Miles Brand
- Dirk Bogarde: Robert Gold
- Julie Christie: Diana Scott
- José Luis de Vilallonga: Cesare
- Roland Curram: Malcolm
- Basil Henson: Alec Prosser -Jones
- Helen Lindsay: Felicity Prosser -Jones
- Carlo Palmucci: Curzio della Romita
- Dante Posani: Gino
- Umberto Raho: Palucci
- Pauline Yates: Estelle Gold
- Peter Bayliss: Lord Grant
- Alex Scott: Sean Martin
- Brian Wilde: Willett
- Richard Bidlake: Rupert Crabtree
- Trevor Bowen: Tony Bridges
- Marika Rivera: Woman
Darling is a British feature film from the year 1965.
Action
Robert Gold works as a documentary for British television. Diana Scott is a model. You learn on the street know when Robert interviewed for a television program, which aims to demonstrate the attitude of young people to the bourgeois conventions. Both are indeed romantically involved firmly, yet they begin a relationship. Robert leaves his wife and children and they move into an apartment together. Quickly they are an attractive couple on the art scene of swinging London.
Diana is jealous when Robert sees his wife while he was visiting his children. She begins the way to having an affair with Miles Brand, who is the boss of a company, working for the Diana as a model. The introverted Robert is then jealous, therefore withdraws stronger and stronger. Diana on the other hand plunges into the fast life of London. When she becomes pregnant, she pushes and pulls with Miles to Paris, where the party life is still hilarious. Robert, this is the final separation from Diana.
For a further campaign for Miles ' company Diana comes to Rome, where she meets the rich, aristocratic widower and his son Cesare. There she flirts with religion, but what seems to spring even more on a whim. Back in London, she is the life of the local scene quickly tire. Spontaneously, she flies to Rome and married Cesare. The marriage, however, develops shrill when Diana was expecting it because Cesare is mentally ill. She flees back to London and meets with Robert, who opened her the chance to return to him. After a night of love, he tells her however that this was only for revenge. He buys her a plane ticket to Rome and pushes them off. At the airport, she is chased by a pack of press photographers, which they have judged as prominent Italian princess in a celebrity status. Diana checked out and leaves London.
Background
The film seems at first like a continuation of Schlesinger's previous film Billy Liar, where Julie Christie, the northern English town leaves at the end of the film to London to begin a new, exciting life. However, unlike the films from the beginning of the British New Wave, the heroes of this film are grown out of the working-class environment and strive for new horizons. So then the film seems more like a destruction of the dreams of the heroes from past films in the early 1960s.
Reviews
" Formal remarkable, in view of the career-minded Luders by Julie Christie fascinating film, but it remains unclear in his critical tendency. "
" Ambitious designed, but in the targeted critical tendency not entirely clear film Schlesinger. Although one may attribute to him no speculative intentions, we keep it even for mature adults only conditionally recommended for. "
Awards
After Schlesinger has already made a name with his first two films, Darling was then the biggest success. Although he was not like the first films in the competitions of the major festivals, but for this he won a number of major film awards.
The film received three Oscars in 1966 in the categories " Best Actress " (Julie Christie ), "Best Costume Design ( black and white )" and " Best Original Screenplay ". At the Golden Globe Awards, he had already received the award for "Best English-language foreign film ". In the UK, Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde were awarded the British Film Academy Award for " Best British Actor ". Moreover, this price issue for the " Best Screenplay " and " Best Production Design ".