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Petulia

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Petulia (1968)

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Reviews Counted: 11 Fresh: 10  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.8/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Synopsis: A film very much of its time -- the swinging '60s -- "Petulia" is also a timeless study of romantic relationships in a consumer society. It is filmed in a fragmented, jumpy style, that is nonetheless powerful and effective. A prominent San Francisco surgeon's life is turned upside down when... A film very much of its time -- the swinging '60s -- "Petulia" is also a timeless study of romantic relationships in a consumer society. It is filmed in a fragmented, jumpy style, that is nonetheless powerful and effective. A prominent San Francisco surgeon's life is turned upside down when he falls in love with an eccentric young woman caught in an unhappy marriage with a sadistic man. Can this odd couple's love transcend the conventions of their upper-class world? [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Arthur Hill, Shirley Knight

Director: Richard Lester
Producer: Raymond Wagner
Screenwriter: Larry Marcus, Barbara Turner
Composer: John Barry

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 20, 2006

[DVD Details]
  • Petulia
  • "It's a very real film about two people trying to get through to each other," director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night) says of his landmark romance Petulia, set in summer-of-love-era San Francisco.
  • There Julie Christie plays a unhappily married socialite trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor (George C. Scott), who in his own words just wants to "feel something." He'll soon feel, even hurt, a lot. Because we know why kooky Petulia so desperately reaches out. As Lester zigzags through the flashbacks and flash-forwards of cinematographer Nicolas Roeg's startling images and Lawrence B. Marcus' knowing screenplay, Petulia's jigsaw pieces form a celluloid time capsule of life and love in the turbulent '60s.
  • Source: Warner Home Video

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    Innovative in narrative and style, Lester's dissection of mores and manners through marriages and affairs captures vividly the zeitgeist of the Summer of Love and the violent Vietnam War with brilliant turns from Julie Christie and George C. Scott.

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    07/14/08
    Emanuel Levy
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    Julie Christie in her Oscar role + Richard Lester direction. Enough said.

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    03/08/08
    Steve Crum
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    ...an anti-The Graduate ... an essential film from and about America in the dying days of the '60s, yet the modernism of its style and ambitions makes Petulia impressively ahead of that time.

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    01/25/08
    Mark Bourne
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    Petulia lives on with its vague curiosity and a genuine emotional sting.

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    08/18/06
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
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    06/24/06
    Derek Adams
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    06/14/05
    Emanuel Levy
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    10/23/04
    Roger Ebert
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    08/26/04
    Andy Klein
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    07/26/03
    Nell Minow
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    05/20/03
    Renata Adler
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    11/07/02
    Michael Szymanski
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    Curious one-shot US film in the midst of Lester's British period

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    11/05/02
    Ken Hanke
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    01/01/00
    Dave Kehr
    Chicago Reader
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    I thought this film was more claptrap than anything else.

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