Intimate Reflections
1975 British film
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::summary 1975 British film ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Intimate Reflections |
| director | Don Boyd |
| producer | Don Boyd |
| screenplay | Richard Meyrick |
| editing | Clive Muller |
| starring | Anton Rodgers |
| Lillias Walker | |
| Sally Anne Newton | |
| cinematography | Keith Goddard |
| studio | Kendon Films |
| released | |
| runtime | 86 minutes |
| country | United Kingdom |
| language | English |
| :: |
| name = Intimate Reflections | image = | caption = | director = Don Boyd | story = | producer = Don Boyd | writer = | screenplay = Richard Meyrick | editing = Clive Muller | music = | starring = Anton Rodgers Lillias Walker Sally Anne Newton | cinematography = Keith Goddard | studio = Kendon Films | distributor = | released = | runtime = 86 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = Intimate Reflections is a 1975 British independent drama film directed by Don Boyd and starring Anton Rodgers, Lillias Walker, Sally Anne Newton and Jonathan David. It was Boyd's first feature film and premiered at the 1975 London Film Festival. Boyd described it as a study both of sexual infidelity and the clash between youth and middle-age.
Plot
Robert and Jane are a middle-aged couple grieving over a dead daughter. Michael and Zonny are a young couple with a bright future ahead of them. The film dwells on their parallel lives.
Cast
- Anton Rodgers as Michael White
- Lillias Walker as Zonny
- Sally Anne Newton as Jane
- Jonathan David as Robert
- Peter Vaughan as salesman
- Derek Bond as bank manager
Production
Boyd had hoped to interest British Lion in the film as a 'British ''Emanuelle''' but in the event they backed out, branding it as 'very specialised fare', although Michael Deeley did lend Boyd £500 to take it to the States and tart it around as his 'calling card'.
Reception
The film attracted little attention outside the 1975 London Film Festival and its limited theatrical release in the UK.{{cite news|title=Phoenix of our film industry|newspaper=The Guardian |date=31 March 1979|page=12|first=Derek|last=Malcom}}
The Observer called it "fatuously arty."{{cite news|newspaper=The Observer |date=16 November 1975|page=30|title=The doomed diggers}} The Sunday Telegraph reviewer wrote "I wish I could like Intimate Relations more than I do." Evening Standard felt "bits of [the film] which are good to very good... well worth a look." The Daily Telegraph felt it was "not quite successful."
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A virtual anthology of false 'good' ideas rendered in a thrice-told arts-and-crafts manner of endless replays, the film cannot even take up a relatively modest notion or conceit ... without driving it into the ground."
Time Out (New York) wrote: "Surely the worst film of the year ... no amount of special pleading, bonhomie towards experiment, or explanation of motive can hide the fact that the result is like a synthesis of every bad detail of every bad undergraduate film you've ever seen."
References
References
- "Intimate Reflections".
- "London Film Festival 1975". BFI database.
- "Intimate Reflections". BFI database.
- Walker, Alexander. (September 2005). "National Heroes: British Cinema in the 70's and 80's". [[Orion Publishing Group.
- (16 November 1975). "A little Liszt". Sunday Telegraph.
- Walker, Alexander. (20 November 1975). "Shorts... and nearly all sweet". Evening Standard.
- (14 November 1975). "Whimsy and warning". The Daily Telegraph.
- (1 January 1975). "Intimate Reflections".
- "Intimate Reflections". Time Out (New York).
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