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    Accident (1967)

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    “Like a punch in the chest. Put together breath by breath, look by look, lust by lust, lie by lie. A compelling film”.

    The complex relationships of an Oxford professor, one of his students, and the young woman who captivates both of them is the subject of this difficult but rewarding drama.

    Director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter had previously collaborated on 1963’s The Servant, and they surrounded this recasting of a Nicholas Mosley novel with a similar atmosphere of ominous mystery.

    The film starts with a car crash splitting the night air of the quiet countryside outside Oxford.

    A male student has been killed, and his female companion – Anna, an aloof Austrian exchange student – is taken into the neighbouring mansion, occupied by the unhappily married, self-doubting, university teacher, Stephen (Dirk Bogarde), who has been instructing them both in philosophy.

    The story is then presented through flashbacks and memories that trace the characters’ interactions.

    accident2Though the mood is occasionally brightened by satirical views of the academic world, the overall effect is rather sombre, concerned with missed opportunities, unhealthy obsessions, and unavoidable regret.

    Bogarde superbly captures the pensive professor’s torment, with able support from Jacqueline Sassard and Michael York as the younger couple.

    But the main acting surprise is provided by Stanley Baker, unusually bespectacled as the amorous Charlie, and wittily suggesting the man’s self-esteem and his lonely search for horizontal satisfaction.

    Stephen
    Dirk Bogarde
    Charlie

    Stanley Baker
    Anna

    Jacqueline Sassard
    William

    Michael York
    Rosalind

    Vivien Merchant
    Francesca

    Delphine Seyrig
    Bell

    Harold Pinter
    Provost

    Alexander Knox
    Laura

    Ann Firbank
    Hedges

    Nicholas Mosley

    Director
    Joseph Losey

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