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"Maybe you're not supposed to like it with someone you love." With a script by satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer, Mike Nichols's Carnal Knowledge (1971) ruthlessly exposed the damage wrought by pre-1960s sexual mores. From their post-World War II college years at Amherst through the Vietnam era, buddies Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and Sandy (Art Garfunkel) are a catalogue of male sexual dysfunction. Sensitive Sandy falls in love with and marries college sweetheart Susan (Candice Bergen) only
Jun 30, 1971 Wide
May 15, 2001
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
All Critics (26) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (3) | DVD (5)
A rather superficial and limited probe of American male sexual hypocrisies.
The picture has its moments of chilling insight, though essentially it is one more quaint early-70s stab at an American art cinema that never materialized.
Stays within the universe of its characters, and inhabits it totally. And within that universe, men and woman fail to find sexual and personal happiness because they can't break through their patterns of treating each other as objects.
In addition to being the toughest comedy since Little Murders, and the most imaginative comedy since Catch 22, Carnal Knowledge represents a nearly ideal collaboration of directorial and writing talents.
... an acerbic and, in many ways, dispiriting portrait of masculinity and male sexuality in the post-World War II culture.
A pretentious and uneven provocative moralistic adult drama about coping with the "sexual revolution" among the middle-class males.
Ah, the sweet smell of '70s American cinema when anything was possible.
Deeply felt critique of middle-class sexual politics, and one of the better films of formerly interesting director Mike Nichols.
Misunderstood by critics and viewers, Nichols' satire of male chauvinism is by turns witty, provocative, funny, and depressing. The film was so controversial in 1971 that it went all the way to the Supreme Court for obscenity charges.
This was never quite the major assault on sexism and male chauvinism it set itself up to be.
Brilliant acting!
The perforances are impressive, but the freshness is gone.
Uma interessante análise sobre a sexualidade masculina e - o mais importante - a forma com que os próprios homens a enxergam.
While one might applaud its intent, Carnal Knowledge succeeds only in being self-righteous and dull.
Both sexually exploitative and immature in their own ways, two men navigate changing sexual mores during the sexual revolution.I always thought that Closer was the meanest film ever made, certainly the meanest in Mike Nichols's canon. Now that I've seen Carnal Knowledge, I think Closer might have found its match but
December 7, 2011
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