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Accident (1967)

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The complex relationships among an Oxford professor, one of his students, and the young woman who captivates both of them is the subject of this difficult but rewarding drama. Director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter had previously collaborated on 1963's The Servant, and they surrounded this recasting of a Nicholas Mosley novel with a similar atmosphere of ominous mystery. The story is presented through flashbacks and disconnected memories that trace the characters' interactions. Though

Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

BFI Distribution

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All Critics (9) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (1) | DVD (1)

Painstakingly underplayed.

February 1, 2012 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Although little remembered over the intervening decades-and maddeningly misunderstood by many of the reviewers who shrugged it off-Accident is one of the great modern films.

May 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Parallax View | Comment
Parallax View

An eerie, caustic, surgically calm film about the skull beneath the skin of genteel English life.

June 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | Comment
Daily Telegraph

'Accident' now seems a little self-conscious in its modernist, 'quality' art-cinema pretensions.

June 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Taut, dark, brilliantly acted - this autopsy on the emotional lives of the English intelligentsia is among Bogarde and Losey's greatest achievements.

June 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

It's a story of overheated sexual jealousy, colliding male egos and long boozy days full of spite and point-scoring. It's brilliantly cruel and only slightly dated.

June 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Times [UK] | Comment
Times [UK]

I personally think Losey's The Servant is the more interesting film, because it has the more interesting performance from Bogarde.

June 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

The overall effect is so full of loathing and meanness that one hardly cares for those subliminal tremors, and the arch structuring of the story - the accident, then the long flashback - makes it dramatically inert.

June 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Independent | Comment
Independent

Wonderful collaboration between writer Harold Pinter, director Joseph Losey, and actor Dirk Bogarde, who plays an Oxford professor obsessed with his beautiful student. Losey's stylishly elegant, psychologically comepelling study is one his best films.

February 1, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Accident

Understated and complex. A fine collaboration of Bogarde, Losey and Pinter.

December 5, 2010
bookmunki

Super Reviewer

Intense, compelling film with Michael York, Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker meeting gorgeous Jacqueline Sassard, and clashing verbal swords over her in that creepily repressed, passive-aggressive British style. Also interesting to see screenwriter Harold Pinter turn up in a cameo as a television executive.I looked up

November 23, 2009
Eric Broome

Super Reviewer

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