• It opens with a powerful shot with accident audio off camera and a great dolly shot focusing in on the house
  • From that strong opening there’s a real sense of strong framing with the bottle of whiskey, car, and bodies thrown from the accident
  • The film as a whole is ultra-austere- just so understated and English- Bogarde is a big part of that with his manicured and internalized performance- he’s like a tea kettle slowly boiling after the woman he loves/lusts sleeps with basically everyone around him except him
  • Heavily ambiguous and implied
  • Interesting long sequence of acting with the two actors in the scene doing voice over of their feelings while the models (themselves) in the scene don’t say anything
  • Complex narrative- pretty tough first watch
  • Not in the top 10 of 1967
  • Recommend