Word: liz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Halfway through the film, he meets Liz--the penultimate vision of Lime--that imaginary 'Cliffie you half-expect to encounter un-accompanied in the early-morning Bick. Frankly, alluringly, incredibly, she offers herself to Billy. She, too, has cherished a fantasy nether world; this is their greatest bond. They plan to flee to London, and live together in bohemian impetuousness...
Earlier we saw the fantastic as a refuge from mundane reality. Liz offers a chance for a real-life adventure! But Billy is too weak for actual escape; the lure of Ambrosia is too powerful. Kidding himself to the last, he "misses" the train which carries Liz...
This is a wonderful film. Julie Christie, as the ever-free Liz, will fail to enrapture only the most hardened Lamont wonk, and should cause even the Peachiest of Cliffies to loosen the stays on her girdle. Tom Courtenay must be a Harvard Everyman--going through the motions on the outside, but a sexual tiger, fearless politico, and suffering hero in his omnipresent daydreams...
...spirit of high hilarity. (Whenever he finds himself pinched in a particularly sticky wicket he sees himself suddenly in a trooper's uniform, spattering his tormentors with submachine-gun bullets.) But finally, after his pipedream of a big-city job collapses, after the boss catches him embezzling, when Liz leaves for London without him and he faces the death of his grandmother and fury of his father we realize that the pathetic little mirage of Ambrosia is Billy's permanent residence...
Poor Dickie and Liz; they get no respite