Word: petulia
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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...
...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...
...most of the movie, doing calculatedly kooky things to attract his attention, such as smashing a store window to steal an enormous tuba which she totes around, and breaking a rib so that he can prescribe bed rest-in his bed. While Julie does her sleekly sexy best with Petulia, Scott never once loses his look of peevish disgruntlement, possibly because he doesn't even get the girl...
...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...