Accident (1967)
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89% of critics liked it
(9 reviews) -
74% of users liked it
(483 ratings)
The complex relationships among 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… More The complex relationships among 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 story is presented through flashbacks and disconnected memories that trace the characters' interactions. Though the mood is occasionally brightened by satirical views of the academic world, the overall effect is rather somber, concerned with missed opportunities, unhealthy obsessions, and unavoidable regret. Dirk Bogarde superbly captures the pensive professor's torment, with able support from Jacqueline Sassard and Michael York as the younger couple. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi
- Directed By
- Joseph Losey
- Genres
- Mystery & Suspense, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1967 Wide
- Studio
- BFI Distribution
Critic Reviews
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Wally Hammond, Time Out
'Accident' now seems a little self-conscious in its modernist, 'quality' art-cinema pretensions.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Painstakingly underplayed.
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Richard T. Jameson, Parallax View
Although little remembered over the intervening decades-and maddeningly misunderstood by many of the reviewers who shrugged it off-Accident is one of the great modern films.
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Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph
An eerie, caustic, surgically calm film about the skull beneath the skin of genteel English life.
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Jon Fortgang, Film4
Taut, dark, brilliantly acted - this autopsy on the emotional lives of the English intelligentsia is among Bogarde and Losey's greatest achievements.
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Cast
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Dirk Bogarde
as Stephen
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Stanley Baker
as Charley
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Jacqueline Sassard
as Anna
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Michael York
as William
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Vivien Merchant
as Rosalind
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Delphine Seyrig
as Francesca
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Harold Pinter
as Bell
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Alexander Knox
as Provost
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Ann Firbank
as Laura
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Brian Phelan
as Police Sergeant
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Freddie Jones
as Frantic Man in Bell's Office
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Nicholas Mosley
as Hedges
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Jane Hillary
as Receptionist
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Jill Johnson
as Secretary
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Terence Rigby
as Plainclothes Policeman
