Darling (1965)
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| German title | Darling |
| Original title | Darling |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 128 minutes |
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| Director | John Schlesinger |
| script | Frederic Raphael |
| production | Joseph Janni |
| music | John Dankworth |
| camera | Kenneth Higgins |
| cut | Jim Clark |
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Darling is a 1965 British film .
action
Robert Gold works as a documentary filmmaker for British television. Diana Scott is a model . They get to know each other on the street when Robert interviews them for a television program aimed at showing young people's attitudes towards civic conventions . Both are firmly in a relationship, but they start a relationship. Robert leaves his wife and children and they move into an apartment together. They quickly become an attractive couple in the swinging London art scene .
Diana is jealous when Robert sees his wife while he is visiting his children. On the side, she starts an affair with Miles Brand, who runs a company Diana works for as a model. The introverted Robert then becomes jealous and therefore withdraws stronger and stronger. Diana, on the other hand, plunges into the fast paced life of London. When she becomes pregnant, she has an abortion and moves to Paris with Miles , where the party life becomes even livelier. For Robert, this is the final separation from Diana.
Diana comes to Rome for another advertising campaign for Miles' company , where she meets the wealthy, aristocratic widower Cesare and his son. There she flirts with religion, but it also seems to be a whim. Back in London, she quickly gets tired of the scene there. She spontaneously flies to Rome and marries Cesare. However, the marriage turns out to be more strident than Diana expected, since Cesare is apparently cheating on her. She flees back to London and meets with Robert, who gives her the chance to return to him. After a night of love, however, he explains to her that this was only out of revenge. He buys her a plane ticket to Rome and pushes her off. At the airport she is chased by a pack of press photographers who have elevated her to celebrity status as a prominent Italian princess. Diana checks in and leaves London.
background
At first glance , the film looks like a sequel to Schlesinger's previous film, Geliebter Spinner , where Julie Christie leaves the small town in Northern England for London at the end of the film in order to start a new, more exciting life. Unlike the films at the beginning of British New Wave, however , the heroes of this film have outgrown the working class and strive for new shores. So the film looks more like a destruction of the dreams of the heroes from previous films in the early 1960s.
Reviews
"Formally more remarkable, in the portrayal of the career-addicted bitch by Julie Christie, fascinating film, but its critical tendency remains unclear."
“Schlesinger's film is ambitiously designed but not entirely clear in terms of the critical tendency sought. Although one cannot assume that it has any speculative intentions, we consider it only conditionally recommendable, even for more mature adults. "
Awards
After Schlesinger had already made a name for himself with his first two films, Darling was the biggest success so far. It did not run like the first films in the competitions of the major festivals, but it won a number of important film awards.
The film received three Oscars in 1966 in the categories of "Best Actress" (Julie Christie), "Best Costumes (Black and White)" and "Best Original Screenplay". At the Golden Globe Awards , he had already received the award "Best English-Language Foreign Film". In Great Britain, Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde received the British Film Academy Award for “Best British Actor”. There was also this award for “ Best British Screenplay ” and “Best Production Design”.
Web links
- Darling in the Internet Movie Database (English)