Petulia

A frustrated socialite enters a doomed love affair, at the height of late 1960s counter-culture chic.

 

We are pleased to announce that season curator, Bob Stanley, will be introducing the screening on Saturday 3 February.

  • Director

    Richard Lester

  • With

    Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain

  • UK-USA 1968. 105min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    15

Barry wrote an unsettling, anxious score for Richard Lester’s time capsule of late sixties, psychedelia-era San Francisco. The film also includes cameos from the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin’s Big Brother & the Holding Company. Julie Christie, at the peak of her powers, plays the sexually frustrated Petulia, while Lester’s use of rapid flashbacks only adds to the high-60s allure of this slowly unwinding parable. A lost masterpiece.

Contains scenes of domestic violence.

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