Word: petulia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PETULIA. Julie Christie and George C. Scott get top billing in this ribald, ricocheting Richard Lester film of a love affair between a crusty, cutup doctor and a flouncy, flipped-out wife; the film's biggest star, however, remains the compelling city of San Francisco...
...precipitated an interplay of ideas that flows freely between Madison Avenue and the conventional movie set. The directors dabble with Fellini-like stream-of-consciousness techniques. Hollywood copies TV's fast cuts and odd-angle perspectives. The quality of Richard Lester's movies A Hard Day's Night, Petulia reflects his experience as director of more than 300 commercials...
...PETULIA. Julie Christie and George C. Scott get top billing in this ribald, ricocheting Richard Lester film of a love affair between a crusty, cutup doctor and a flouncy, flipped-out wife; the film's biggest star, however, remains the compelling city of San Francisco...
...PETULIA. The city of San Francisco is clearly the star of this whimsical, sometimes bitter Richard Lester film about the switched-on love affair of a middle-aged doctor (George C. Scott) and a kooky young wife (Julie Christie...
...only one clearly enjoying himself is Director Lester, who has unabashedly used the story as a pretext to gleek, glom and glare at the Frisco scene with his cameras. "My apartment's only four blocks from here," says the doctor. He and Petulia go to a super de luxe motel instead, allowing Lester to display the automated checkin, the key that lights up when you reach your door, and the vibrating double bed. When a pal wants to have a serious talk with Scott about his marital problems, they go to lunch at a topless restaurant so that...