Accident DVD
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Film Details
Directed by Joseph Losey
Produced in 1967
Main Language - English
Countries & Regions - British Film
Cast
Delphine Seyrig, Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael York, Vivien Merchant, Jacqueline Sassard
Genres
Classic Drama Movies • Classic Mystery Movies • Classic Movies Blu-rays • Classic British Film • British Film Blu-rays
Film Description
Rivalry and sexual tension simmer under a glacial surface of detached companionship and leafy academia in Harold Pinter and Joseph Losey's second screen collaboration. Pinter's script is suitably spare and perplexing; Losey's direction slow and deliberate.
Accident centres on a middle-aged man in crisis. Dirk Bogarde plays Stephen, a married Oxford don, seemingly content in his marriage to Rosalind (Vivien Merchant) but underneath starting to fear emotional rot and feeling the social wounds of tutoring students above his station. He is also silently resentful of his colleague Charley (Stanley Baker) and his sexual prowess, not to mention his burgeoning TV career, One night a car crashes near his country house in the middle of the night. The survivor is a student's fiancée, the enigmatic Anna (Jacqueline Sassard) who Stephen has been longing for an affair with, realising she could either revitalise - or ruin - his life. As the previous months’ events gradually unfold in flashback over a hot summer it soon becomes clear that the car crash was perhaps no 'accident' at all, but rather a mysterious, collectively willed catastrophe.
DVD Details
Certificate: PG
Publisher: Optimum Releasing
Length: 101 mins
Aspect ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic widescreen
Region: 2
Cat No: OPTD0932
Format: DVD Colour
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Community Reviews
by Barry Forshaw on 29th April 2013
Impressive though The Servant was, the finest fruit of the Losey/Pinter collaboration is undoubtedly Accident, a film in which the level of achievement matches that of... Read on
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