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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792859024
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792859022
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 02, 2003
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 23832
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: August 03, 1965
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
(Headline/Quote): Irresistible. Glittering and stabbingly brilliant. Julie Christie turns in an astonishing Oscar®-winning* performance in this sensitive and stunning tale (Cue) about wanting it all and getting exactly what you wish for. Directed by John Schlesinger from an Oscar®-winning* screenplay by Frederic Raphael Darling is a slashing social satire loaded with startling expositions and lacerating wit (The New York Times).Ambitious model Diana Scott (Christie) uses her relationships to turn a low-rent career into a high-gear smorgasbord of jet-setting love-making and the pursuit of hedonistic happiness. But as she moves from one fiery tryst with a TV writer (Dirk Bogarde) to another with a suave playboy (Laurence Harvey) and yet another with a crown prince she finds that happiness is the one thing that may elude her forever.*1965: Actress (Christie) Original Screenplay Costume Design B&WA beautiful model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene in this sensitive and stunning tale (Cue) directed by John Schlesinger.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 027616899545 Manufacturer No: 1005693
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Julie Christie's miracle year of 1965 (she was also in Doctor Zhivago) was capped by a best-actress Oscar® for this sardonic take on Swinging London. Looking about as gorgeous as women get, Christie ascends the ladder of social success, trampling everybody in her path--an ascent that allows writer Frederic Raphael and director John Schlesinger to slash away at the morally bankrupt world that would enable such a person to triumph. Cynics might suggest that Schlesinger's approach, rife with the experiments of New Wave filmmaking, is nearly as empty and showy as the world it describes... which may be why this movie seems more dated than, say, Richard Lester's films from the '60s. Still, with Christie getting generous and suave support from two of the top British stars of the day, Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey, Darling remains a watchable missive from a volatile era. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "It should be so easy to be happy,shouldn't it?"
"Darling" was Julie Christie's breakthrough in 1965,along with the epic "Doctor Zhivago." In "Darling", Christie is Diana Scott, a sophisticated London model. She's flighty and dreamy, always hoping for happiness and love. First, she shacks up with a married man, the suave Dirk Bogarde; later, she falls for the slimy playboy Laurence Harvey. In the meantime, she befriends a gay photographer Malcolm and becomes an Italian princess. She tries to become Catholic to please her princely husband. Alone ... Read More
Rating: - everybody's darling, at any age
it is always a pleasure to watch and to re-watch julie christie in any movie she chooses to do. watching this early film in juxtaposition with AWAY FROM HER reminds us that Cleopatra was not the only woman whose beauty can not be withered by age. when the beauty evolves from intelligence, it is always with her and with us. we all are that much richer for having been in her presence.
Rating:  - Running on Empty in the Swingin' Sixties
"Darling", the brittle mid-1960s cult classic, was written by Frederick Raphael (he won an Oscar for the script) and directed by John Schlesinger. Like a handful of other interesting black and white films from this era written by authors like Raphael and Alan Sillitoe, "Darling" has dated somewhat, although not in a way that devalues its superb qualities. Think, for example, of "Morgan!", "Georgy Girl", and "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner". Although these are all very different films, ... Read More
Rating:  - Darling
I bought this movie because I couldn't find it to rent and I wanted to see it. I was amazed at how it has stood the test of time. Besides the great performance Julie Christie gives in this movie, Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey were wonderful too! I'd recommend this to anyone who wants a picture of the Swinging Sixties in London.
Rating: - Julie Christie saves this drab film.
Darling starring Julie Christie in her Oscar-winning role is a good movie but nothing worth viewing again. Christie definitely deserved the Oscar for her performance as shallow but intriguing Diana Scott, she was quite a beauty back then. The plot is a bit contrived and the film drags too much, making this film too long. The only reason to watch Darling is for the strong acting but otherwise than that, Darling is pretty much forgettable.
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