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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.
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Director
Richard Lester
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With
Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain
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UK-USA 1968. 105min
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35mm
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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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