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1973
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Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Richard Lester's "Petulia" made me desperately unhappy, and yet I am unable to find a single thing wrong with it. I suppose that is high praise. It is the coldest, cruelest film I can remember, and one of the most intellectual.
Petulia's vibrant personality hides her fear of her abusive husband, David (Richard Chamberlain), whose father is a powerful society figure. As Petulia and Archie's feelings for each other...
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- Richard Lester
- R
- Julie Christie
Petulia is the cross-over character: a free spirit with a tuba in white maribou, being shut up in a stuffy mansion in Marin County, with an abusive, plastic husband. "Petulia" is a wonderful, alarming, disturbing gem of a film that has soaring hope and chilling visuals. Not a film to be missed.
Apr 29, 2022 · With the exception of the notoriously difficult to please Pauline Kael, critics who saw the film in the late 60s marveled at the masterpiece. Roger Ebert meanwhile said in his 1968 review of the film: “Richard Lester’s Petulia made me desperately unhappy, and yet I am unable to find a single thing wrong with it.”.
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Featured review. Nothing says heartbreak like Petulia. I've never seen a film which captured the confusion of love gone wrong like this. The kaleidoscopic editing can be a distraction but it also helps create the torment of the main character as his life slowly ceases to make sense.
Box office. $1.6 million (US/Canada) [1] Petulia is a 1968 drama film directed by Richard Lester and starring Julie Christie, George C. Scott and Richard Chamberlain. [2] The screenplay was by Lawrence B. Marcus from a story by Barbara Turner and is based on the 1966 novel Me and the Arch Kook Petulia by John Haase. It was scored by John Barry .
