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Accident (DVDrip - 1967)

English | Subtitles : Spanish .srt | 101 min | XVid 576x336 | 873 kb/s | 82 kb/s [mono] VBR mp3 | 25 fps | 700 mb

Genre : Art-house | RS.com + ftp2share mirrors

Romantic entanglements form during the summer session at Oxford: dons Stephen (Dirk Bogarde) and Charley (Stanley Baker), both married, are smitten by the beauty of aloof Austrian exchange student Anna (Jacqueline Sassard). Although young aristocrat William (Michael York) is her supposed beau, relationships thicken at a lunch party at Stephen's place that turns into a day-long drunk. Stephen's wife Rosalind (Vivien Merchant) is pregnant, but he's still threatened by his loss of masculinity, trying to secure a BBC deal like the smug Charley, and looking up an old flame (Delphine Seyrig) while in London. Stephen's shocked to find Anna sneaking behind William's back to sleep with Charley, as the two young people are practically engaged ... but Stephen also discovers he doesn't know the extent of his own desires.

From DVD Savant:
"Here we have the most successful film by the strongest English exponent of the 'Art' picture in the '60s, Joseph Losey. When Accident came out it was heralded as a masterpiece, the finest work yet from the American left-wing director who started over again in England after being blacklisted in Hollywood."

"As much a Harold Pinter creation as Losey's, Accident is an intriguing drama among some unusually tight-lipped people, perhaps weighed too heavily in the direction of Meaningful Emptiness, but always engaging and emotionally suspenseful."

IMDB user comment:
"Not a lot happens, but we were glued to The Accident. The script is wonderfully understated. Pinter as screenplay writer is a different style from Pinter the playwright. Pinter teases us, though, with a small cameo performance of his own using almost mock-Pinter dialogue for that one short scene. Also of note script-wise is the scene soon after Pinter's scene when Dirk Bogarde visits his old flame in London and the dialogue is almost thoughts, almost dialogue - you don't see either of them actually speaking."

"The cinematography on this movie is superb. Oxford in the summer is a soft target for beautiful shots, but this film fills its boots with that beauty. Yet the dark mood never leaves you despite the beauty - partly because 90% of the movie is a flashback, so you have already seen most of the tragedy unfold. Also, the behaviour of the two professors is just so awful. Dirk Bogarde comes across somewhat sympathetically because he is Dirk Bogarde, but the character is a more or less unmitigated toad. The Stanley Baker character is also horrible. The acting of all the main characters is superb."

In Spanish:
Una joven estudiante de Oxford se ve envuelta en un accidente como consecuencia del cual muere su novio. Desesperada, sólo encontrará consuelo en un sereno y cálido profesor universitario.
El hecho de que un profesor de Oxford se enamore de una de sus estudiantes parece apenas una excusa para que Pinter y Losey se internen en un complejo mosaico narrativo dictado por la memoria.-¿Qué ocurre cuando no hay palabras? En esta película todo sucede, nada se explica (Harold Pinter). El guionista tiene una breve aparición como Mr.Bell, un productor de televisión.

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