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Title: Intriguing Film from 60's England
Review: I have never particularly been a Julie Christie fan. There's no denying that she is beautiful and talented, but there is something about her that has always left me cold. In "Dr. Zhivago", I never understood why Yuri left Tonya for her Lara. In this film, however, she seems perfectly cast as the social climbing model who will do anything and use anyone to get to the next level. She even engenders some sympathy for her character when she attains her "dream" and it's not all that it's cracked up to be. The reason she probably won the Oscar for this performance is that she made an essentially unsympathetic character somewhat bearable. Not to be overlooked is Dirk Bogarde's sympathetic portrayal as the writer who Christie's Diana uses on her way to the top but who inevitably gets the last laugh on her. One thing that struck me was how sexually provocative this film was considering it was made in 1965.
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