Word: petulia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shows few signs of fatigue; in fact, he gets better with each film. The two Beatles movies and The Knack had a glossy, TV-commercial cleverness about them that made the chaotic brilliance of How I Won the War all the more surprising and gratifying. Last year's Petulia was one of the few successful American attempts to tell an adult love story, an unusually acute and sometimes vitriolic account of the way two lovers destroy each other. The Bed Sitting Room carries reminders of both the other films and of other styles. Indeed, it shows its lineage proudly...
...Petulia, a sad and moving film by Richard Lester, shows its director capable of insight into his characters and instinct toward his actors. Lester's cinema is generally defined by tricky and overcontrived camera gymnastics (Petulia has its share of this, and none of it is good)--but here we have him leaving his camera rolling when his actors begin to groove, plainly sacrificing editorial cleanliness for dramatic punch. Petulia's occasional messiness is much to Lester's credit: the film ends at least six times in its attempt to chronicle a relationship realistically, but just before its strange construction...
...PETULIA. A thick-skinned doctor (George C. Scott) and a flipped-out wife (Julie Christie) make an odd pair of lovers in Director Richard Lester's portrait of a decidedly modern romance...
...PETULIA. Set in San Francisco, Richard Lester's film covers the contemporary scene and dissects the way men and women treat each other through the cruel, comic story of the relationship, or lack of it, between a kook (Julie Christie) and a surgeon (George C. Scott) who care that they couldn't care less...
...PETULIA. A thick-skinned doctor (George C. Scott) and a flipped-out wife (Julie Christie) make an odd pair of lovers in Director Richard Lester's portrait of a decidedly modern romance...