Intimate Reflections
| Intimate Reflections | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Don Boyd |
| Screenplay by | Richard Meyrick |
| Produced by | Don Boyd |
| Starring | Anton Rodgers Lillias Walker Sally Anne Newton |
| Cinematography | Keith Goddard |
| Edited by | Clive Muller |
Production company | Kendon Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Intimate Reflections is a 1975 British independent drama film directed by Don Boyd and starring Anton Rodgers, Lillias Walker, Sally Anne Newton and Jonathan David.[1] It was Boyd's first feature film and premiered at the 1975 London Film Festival.[2][3] Boyd described it as a study both of sexual infidelity and the clash between youth and middle-age.[4]
Plot
[edit]Robert and Jane are a middle-aged couple grieving over a dead daughter. Michael and Zonny are a young couple with a bright future ahead of them. The film dwells on their parallel lives.
Cast
[edit]- Anton Rodgers as Michael White
- Lillias Walker as Zonny
- Sally Anne Newton as Jane
- Jonathan David as Robert
- Peter Vaughan as salesman
- Derek Bond as bank manager
Production
[edit]Boyd had hoped to interest British Lion in the film as a 'British Emanuelle' but in the event they backed out, branding it as 'very specialised fare', although Michael Deeley did lend Boyd £500 to take it to the States and tart it around as his 'calling card'.[4]
Reception
[edit]The film attracted little attention outside the 1975 London Film Festival and its limited theatrical release in the UK.[citation needed]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A virtual anthology of false 'good' ideas rendered in a thrice-told arts-and-crafts manner of endless replays, the film cannot even take up a relatively modest notion or conceit ... without driving it into the ground."[5]
Time Out (New York) wrote: "Surely the worst film of the year ... no amount of special pleading, bonhomie towards experiment, or explanation of motive can hide the fact that the result is like a synthesis of every bad detail of every bad undergraduate film you've ever seen."[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Intimate Reflections". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "London Film Festival 1975". BFI database. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ "Intimate Reflections". BFI database. Archived from the original on 17 January 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ a b Walker, Alexander (September 2005) [1985]. National Heroes: British Cinema in the 70's and 80's. Orion. ISBN 0-7528-5707-X.
- ^ "Intimate Reflections". The Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 42, no. 492. 1 January 1975. p. 239 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Intimate Reflections". Time Out (New York). Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2011.