MINI REVIEW:
DARLING (1965)
DIRECTED BY: JOHN SCHLESINGER
STARRING: JULIE CHRISTIE

Portraying the flighty, sexy Diana Scott may not have been much of a stretch for Julie Christie but the range of emotions and the fact that she's in virtually every scene definitely qualified her for the oscar she won. However, I can't say I liked this movie all that much. Diana Scott is not a very likeable person after all, and therefore I didnt really care what happened to her throughout her many romances or her hasty marriage to an Italian prince. I found myself not even able to focus on the lovely direction by Schlesinger or the artistically constructed screen entrances which were probably the movie's strongest point outside of its principal performance. Sometimes a movie just doesnt grab you and I chalk it up to my inability to connect w/ the lifestyle or ambivelent attitude of all the characters involved with this one.

Not a waste of time, really, but I wouldnt watch it again.

My rating: 6/10