Darling with Julie Christie, Classic?

I watched this movie last night for the first time and it left me with many mixed emotions. I loved the character from the beginning of the movie but progressively started hating her. When the movie was over I felt really sad and angry. Is the movie more just than a bored woman who gets what she deserves, or should we feel sorry for her? Also I was surprised by how scandalous the movie was for 1965. Beautiful clothes through the film! Any thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsIF4Qysbf8

watched it again maybe 3 years ago, didn't much like it besides glamorous JC

saw this probably a decade ago, and yeah, all i remember about it is gee, julie christy is prettttty.

trailer is hilarious though!

Julies Andrews & Christie lookin' good @ the Oscars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noWGhOFDL1Q

FWIW, I actually own the movie on DVD, but haven't watched it in years. I remember Laurence Harvey making a great ponce and the moment where Julie's character admits that she doesn't actually like sex held some honest power for me.

the rumors were true?

wow i did not know that andrews did not win for sound of music

she did look totally hot

great acceptance speech too

the *she refers to both julies tbh

The Oscar was deserved if it helped Christie score much better parts -- and she did get them. Vastly prefer her in McCabe and Mrs Miller, Shampoo, The Return of the Soldier, Hamlet, Away From Her...

i know next to nothing about julie christie, which is weird to me

she's so beautiful -- more beautiful in late middle age than in Darling.

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/07/05/03_christie_lgl.jpg

surm, Andrews had won the year before for Mary Poppins

Julie Christie did not make many surmmovies.

Terrific career trajectory too -- she refused to live off her looks and coast.

her name in Darling is Diana, right? and she becomes a princess by marriage? then she gets in a car...

my favorite actress ever (after rita tushingham).

i think it's a really excellent film, though i always have a hard time remembering what the actual plot is.

Plot: Julie Christie makes a much of bad romantic decisions, cultimating in a marriage to an old aristo and becoming a prisoner in a gilded cage. She sells her sad story to a "women's magazine" and women all over England feel a mix of envy and sorrow for her.

I don't think the women of England can feel sorrow because they only know what she tells the interviewer. What she says and what we are shown are completely different realities.

the rumors were true?

Looks like she brought Alex Chilton as her date to the Academy Awards.

got the award from Mr Rex, sans long-suffering wife.

This was sort of a 2fer Oscar, as she'd also done Dr Zhivago that year

One thing I remember about Darling (it's been a while): there's a party scene similar to the party scene in Breakfast at Tiffany's, underscored by the fact that Jose Luis De Villalonga is in both films. I liked the film a lot the one time I saw it.

What she says and what we are shown are completely different realities.

yeah this is the key thing and i think they shd have made more of that. don't love this movie but there's some good incidental stuff like the sub-plot with bogarde's tutor and julie christie LOOKS GOOD obvi.

Just watched Don't Look Now from 73 with Donald Sutherland and directed by Nicolas Roeg. I was surprised at how spooked I was after watching it, really creepy. The old lady face was horrifying. But Julie Christie was gorgeous and the clothes were dreamy.

Abou to watch Far From The Madding Crowd, very exciting!