Sunday Bloody Sunday R
It's about three decent people. They will break your heart.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 23, 2012
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson & Murray Head | |
Performer: | Peggy Ashcroft, Vivian Pickles, Tony Britton, Maurice Denham & Bessie Love | |
Directed by | John Schlesinger | |
Edited by | Richard Marden | |
Screenwriting by | Penelope Gilliatt | |
Composition by | Ron Geesin | |
Produced by | Joseph Janni | |
Director of Photography: | Billy Williams |
Entertainment Reviews:
...A landmark in gay cinema...
USA Today
Rating: B --
The film's more liberal sexual attitude was ahead of its time.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
[I]t works on the level of documentary-like observation and novelistic stream-of-consciousness...
Sight and Sound
...the first mainstream film in which a gay man is totally guiltless about his homosexuality. He has not a moment of self-hate and certainly not a thought to suicide - not while he's having such a randy good time...
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Arts Fuse
Captivating while remaining unvarying in tone and pace...
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Cinema Scope
The script is by Penelope Gilliatt, author and movie critic for the New Yorker... The combination of Schlesinger and Miss Gilliatt obviously worked, his understated approach working with rather than destroying the nuances of her work.
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Cleveland Press
Rating: A- --
Years after being made, this emotionally mature drama is still poignant and touching. It holds an important place in film history offering what's the first positive image of a gay lead character--that he's Jewish doctor makes it even more significant.
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Product Description:
Directed by John Schlesinger, SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY is a sociologically astute drama about the bisexual love triangle between three characters navigating the changing mores of the early-1970s sexual revolution. Gay doctor Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and divorced working woman Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) are both involved with the same man--the much younger and rather self-absorbed bisexual sculptor Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Rather than keeping the simultaneous affairs a secret, Bob has chosen to make Daniel and Alex perfectly aware of each other's existence, leading to melancholy ruminations on the shifting nature of love, sex, and relationships in an increasingly fractured British society. Considered groundbreaking for its frank depiction of homosexuality (as well as featuring one of the first onscreen same-sex kisses), the film's nonjudgmental approach to its characters' seething loneliness is shaped by Penelope Gilliatt's intelligent script, Schlesinger's fluid direction, and the disarmingly honest performances of its two leads. SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY deftly straddles the line between character study and social commentary, offering mature drama that is both specific to its era and disconcertingly prescient.
Keywords:
British
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Classic
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Gay / Lesbian
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Love Story
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Love Triangle
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Art / Artists
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Recommended
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Doctors
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Theatrical Release
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London, England
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Homosexuality
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Love Affairs
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Artists
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Affairs
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Love Triangles
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1970s
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Bisexuality
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Love
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 59,949
- UPC: 715515099615
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