Darling (1965 film)
| Darling | |
|---|---|
film poster
|
|
| Directed by | John Schlesinger |
| Produced by | Joseph Janni |
| Written by | Frederic Raphael |
| Starring |
Julie Christie Laurence Harvey Dirk Bogarde |
| Music by | John Dankworth |
| Cinematography | Kenneth Higgins |
| Edited by | James Clark |
| Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated |
|
Release date
|
|
|
Running time
|
128 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £300,000 or $1.1 million |
| Box office | $4,000,000 |
Darling is a 1965 British drama film written by Frederic Raphael, directed by John Schlesinger, and starring Julie Christie with Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey.
Darling was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Christie won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Diana Scott. The film also won the Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Costume Design.
Diana Scott (Julie Christie) is a beautiful, bored young model married to Tony Bridges (Trevor Bowen). One day, Diana meets Robert Gold (Dirk Bogarde), a literary interviewer/director for television arts programmes, by chance when she is spotted on the street by his roving film crew and interviewed by him about young people's views on convention. Diana is invited to watch the final edit in the TV studio and there their relationship starts. After liaisons in bleak hotel rooms they leave their spouses (and, in Robert's case, children) and move into an apartment.
As a couple, they become part of the fashionable London media/arts set. Initially, Diana is jealous when Robert sees his wife (Pauline Yates) while visiting his children, but she quickly loses this attachment when she mixes with the predatory males of the media, arts and advertising scene, particularly Miles Brand (Laurence Harvey), a powerful advertising executive for the "Glass Corporation" who gets her a part in a trashy thriller after she has sex with him. The bookish Robert prefers the quiet life; it is he who now becomes jealous, but increasingly detached, depressed and lonely.
...
Wikipedia