Just a touch of bliss
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Just a touch of bliss |
| Original title | A Kind of Loving |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Schlesinger |
| script |
Willis Hall , Keith Waterhouse |
| production | Joseph Janni |
| music | Ron Grainer |
| camera | Denys N. Coop |
| cut | Roger Cherill |
| occupation | |
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Only A Kind of Loving is a British feature film from 1962. The film is based on the novel A Kind of Loving (Original title: A Kind of Loving ) by Stan Barstow .
action
The film is set in Yorkshire . Victor Brown's sister is getting married. Old ladies at the wedding talk about Victor as the next family groom. Victor works as a technical draftsman in an industrial city in the north of the UK. During the break, he and his friends are looking at nude photos of women in a men's magazine when his gaze falls on the pretty Ingrid. Ingrid works as a typist in the same company. On the way home, they take the same bus. Victor pretends to have forgotten his money and borrows the fare from Ingrid. Later they arrange to meet and go to the cinema. Victor's friends tease him because Ingrid is considered untouchable and he would certainly not have sex with her. At a later rendezvous in a park, Victor confesses his love for her. They hug each other.
Victor talks to his father about his dreams of work and travel. The father advises him to travel first before he binds himself more closely. Victor meets Ingrid in a café and is annoyed by the superficial conversation. Ingrid also confesses to him that she loves him. There is a closer intimate contact, but it ends disappointing for Victor. They talk about the possibility of having sex together, but Ingrid doesn't seem ready for it.
At work, Victor prefers to be with his buddies. He's also going to the movies with his friend Jeff. On the way home Ingrid intercepts him and reproaches him for his coldness. Another day, Victor and Ingrid flee the rain. She finds his men's magazine and is disgusted. Still, Victor can persuade her to have sex. After that she falls into hysteria and doubts his true feelings. After that, they increasingly avoid each other at work and are no longer together.
Some time later Ingrid comes to Victor and tells him that she is pregnant and that he should marry her. Victor agrees. However, it seems to her that he really doesn't want this. Nevertheless, they get married at a registry office. You're going to Southport on your honeymoon. Here, too, Ingrid first has to be persuaded to have sex. When they return, Victor moves in with Ingrid and her mother, who doesn't like him and was against the wedding.
When Victor comes home one day, he learns that Ingrid has fallen off a staircase and is in the hospital. Her mother hadn't thought it necessary to inform him. Ingrid loses the baby. There is an argument with Ingrid's mother and Victor disappears into a bar. There he meets his buddy Conroy, who informs him that he has just left his wife. Victor returns home drunk and clashes with his mother-in-law again. She tells him how much she hates him and doesn't let him see Ingrid. Victor packs his things and returns to his family. However, she explains to him that he is married and must take responsibility.
Victor returns to Ingrid. You decide to start all over again and rent a small apartment. They love each other in a park. Ingrid fears they might get caught, but Victor reminds her that they are married.
background
Just a touch of bliss is director John Schlesinger's debut film, which he shot in the style of the Nouvelle Vague , but which in the gray world of the north of Great Britain seems a bit like a parody of the French Nouvelle Vague and thus becomes one of the key works of the British New Wave became and is part of the Kitchen Sink Realism movement .
Reviews
“This is John Schlesinger's first film, and for that it's made remarkably succinct; no mendaciousness, no antics, no exhausting social and human theories. And the two main actors move in this straight line with uncomplicated security. "
“An excellently designed film by the English" Free Cinema ", which is unsentimentally concerned with the truth of human reactions. In front of the documentary backdrop of everyday English life, Schlesinger unfolds his "bitter realism", which stimulates discussion far beyond the temporal depiction of sexual and marital conflicts. "
Awards
The film won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 1962 . The film was nominated for Best Film, Alan Bates for Best Actor, and Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse for Best Screenplay at the 1963 BAFTAs .
literature
- Stan Barstow : A touch of bliss. Roman (Original title: A Kind of Loving ). German by Gisela Petersen . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin, 1st edition 1967.
Web links
- A Kind of bliss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Detailed description and photos on the site Alan Bates (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Just a touch of bliss. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 10, 2017 .