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Julie Christie (Actor), Dirk Bogarde (Actor), John Schlesinger (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: Blu-ray
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  • Actors: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey, Roland Curram, Alex Scott
  • Directors: John Schlesinger
  • Producers: Joseph Janni
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Studiocanal
  • DVD Release Date: 30 Mar. 2015
  • Run Time: 122 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00PIN4PV4
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Diana Scott (Julie Christie in an Oscar winning performance) is an ambitious model determined to make it to the top. Using her sexuality, she manipulates powerful men, but in so doing becomes a prisoner of the jet-setting lifestyle she once yearned for. Dirk Bogarde co-stars as Diana's long-suffering boyfriend. The film also won Oscars for Best Original Story and Screenplay, and Costume.

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"It's far too pleased with itself. I wince when I see it now", director John Schlesinger observes of his 1965 film, Darling. You can tell why he's embarrassed. Looking back, his swinging 60s' satire about a model (Julie Christie) so keen to get ahead that she ditches her husband and betrays a succession of boyfriends looks hideously dated. With its self-consciously hip dialogue and unnecessary voice-over, the screenplay by Frederic Raphael (who also wrote Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut) doesn't help. Most of the men Christie encounters, whether Laurence Harvey's slick businessman (who can't pass a mirror without preening himself in it) or Dirk Bogarde's neurotic TV pundit (who has delusions of literary grandeur), are as narcissistic as she is. Although this seems to be a cautionary tale about slick, superficial London media and fashion folk, it's obvious that the filmmakers are half in love with the world they're pretending to lampoon. The visual gags--rich, society matrons at a charity event gorging themselves on food or Christie's poster being plastered over an image of a starving child--are heavy-handed in the extreme. Still, Christie is tremendous in the role which established her as an international star (she won an Oscar). However shallow and selfish her character seems, we can't help but warm to her. --Geoffrey Macnab --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 starsDark Glamour
By Terry Connell on 3 Jan. 2008
Format: DVD
This is one of the best films of the 1960s and Julie Christie righly won an Oscar for it. I was surprised at the negative review because this film was utterly ground-breaking at the time (1965) and the performaces from all the cast are wonderful. The portrait of swinging London is gripping - the parties, the shallowness and the sense that the world was changing is intense - London was the most fashionable place on earth at the time and the film really captures that spirit. See this film if you want a master-class in fine acting.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWhen Christie Was Good, She Was Very Good...
By Cowboy Buddha on 11 Nov. 2003
Format: VHS Tape
Darling is one of the best films of the 1960's with its sharp direction, even sharper script, atmospheric black and white photography, and three outstanding star performances. The style of the film may seem somewhat dated, but its substance still packs a considerable punch.
The film involves its audience with genuine appeal to our emotions and intellect, rather than in the manipulative manner of many more recent movies. Darling makes us think and challenges us to feel. Although very much a reflection of its time, Darling still has very much to say today. It is sad, therefore, that some of those involved in its making tend to distance themselves from it now. Maybe their subsequent careers have made them resemble the film's targets. If nothing else, Darling is populated by real people - some of whom are sometimes uncomfortably realistic.
It is perhaps difficult to realise now how shocking a character Julie Christie was portraying at the time - in those unenlightened days when free love and liberated women were only just beginning to surface into public awareness. The audience was asked to feel sympathy for this middle-class girl who bed-hopped her way from model to princess with barely a hint of conscience. Perhaps she was intended to be another British anti-hero - a female version of Jimmy Porter, Joe Lampton or Arthur Seaton. Or maybe she was the prophetic face of the future - the sixties symbol that everything was changing. Whatever the intention, the character of Diana Scott made a definite impact, both on the men in her life and on the audiences who watched her with a mixture of fascination, disbelief, and (quite possibly) a touch of envy.
The film's solid foundation - some might say its heart and soul - lies in the worldly wise and wickedly satirical script by Frederic Raphael.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBleak and Beautiful
By Leigh Guy on 1 Mar. 2008
Format: DVD
This film may be set in swinging London, but it's a world away from the good natured celebrations of coolness and fabness that films whose action was centred on Carnaby Street tended to be. In Schlesinger's London, marriage to your first love - however settled and however many kds you have - will inevitably end in divorce when you meet someone younger and better dressed. You may be a Nobel winning novelist - but you will still give away your most valued possessions in return from some flattery from a pretty girl. Decency is old fashoned and loyalty - even to your closest friends - isn't worth giving up a 'liaison' for. Even when the object of your attention is your (male) best friend's new boyfriend. The - startlingly contemporary feeling - amorality of Diana's world is charted starkly, but with wit and grace.

Played by anyone other than Julie Christie, Diana would be insufferable and spending two and a half hours in her company would be a deeply uncomfortable experience - but Jule Christie gives her vulnerability and lets us see the genuine unhappiness underneath the charm and beauty that captivate the men drawn into her orbit. The men in her life are excellently played - Laurence Harvey was never better than in this movie. It looks stunning and has a fine John Dankworth soundtrack. This is one of British Cinema's better movies.
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2.0 out of 5 starsTerribly dated and not a patch on its many peers of the 1960s
By Jonathan A Hesford on 30 Jan. 2016
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
The word ‘disappointed’ appears to resonate in the reviews of Darling. To be frank, I too was, eh, disappointed with this film. I never saw it when it was first released, although I was a huge fan of other monochrome movies of the early 1960s, for example: A Kind of Loving, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Room at the Top, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, and a little gem starring Peter Sellers called Only Two Can Play, all of which were superior to this.

To me, the storyline to Darling is gossamer-thin, slung together from an ‘idea’ by the screenwriter, the director and the producer. Julie Christie starred in much better films, the best three being Far from the Madding Crowd, Dr Zhivago, and Don’t Look Now. But of course, all those had the benefit of being drawn from excellent source material (Thomas Hardy, Boris Pasternak, and Daphne Du Maurier respectively).. Having said that, all the three principals’ performances are true to the characters, but in my view the film seems to be nothing more than some kind of vanity project from the three gentlemen who developed the ‘idea’.

Julie Christie may be ravishing – is ravishing – but for me to buy a DVD because of the attractiveness of the leading lady might have been a purchase too far.
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5.0 out of 5 starssocial climbing to happiness
By Alejandra Vernon on 19 Sept. 2003
Format: VHS Tape
This 1965 multi-award winning film is a riveting portrait of a woman who deviously claws her way to the top, in search of "happiness and completion". Julie Christe won an Oscar for her portrayal of Diana Scott, and manages to make this "trivial and shallow" woman interesting.
Frederick Raphael, who also won an Oscar for his work, wrote a story and script that is the basis of what makes this a riveting film to watch. Every scene makes sense, and every phrase has a purpose; there is not a single word that does not belong, or is unnecessary.
It is wonderfully photographed in a very crisp black and white by Ken Higgins, and has an unobtrusive but lovely score by John Dankworth.
Director John Schlesinger brings out the best in even the bit players, and most of all, from Dirk Bogarde, who gives a heartbreaking, brilliant performance as one of Diana's stepping stones. Laurence Harvey plays a vain and vile character with the snakelike coldness he is so good at, and of course, Christie is in her prime, and her beauty and talent shine bright.
Though the atmoshpere of the film is caught in the '60s, the story and characters are timeless; this film deserves to be viewed, for its tremendous performances, and as a portrait of how times change, but much of humanity stays the same, and selfish desires, even when satisfied, are but clanging brass.
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