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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569750180
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 34189
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 10, 1968
Editorial Review:
Description:
'It's a very real film about two people trying to get through to each other,' director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night) says of his landmark romance Petulia, set in summer-of-love-era San Francisco. There Julie Christie plays a unhappily married socialite trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor (George C. Scott), who in his own words just wants to 'feel something.' He'll soon feel, even hurt, a lot. Because we know why kooky Petulia so desperately reaches out. As Lester zigzags through the flashbacks and flash-forwards of cinematographer Nicolas Roeg's startling images and Lawrence B. Marcus' knowing screenplay, Petulia's jigsaw pieces form a celluloid time capsule of life and love in the turbulent '60s.
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Amazon.com essential video:
This Richard Lester film will tell you more about how confusing the '60s were than any hackneyed NBC miniseries ever could. In this fragmented love story, told in a nonlinear fashion that bounces back and forth in time, George C. Scott plays a newly divorced surgeon who meets a charming if scattered young woman, Petulia (Julie Christie). He falls into an affair with her, only to discover that she is married to a seemingly normal guy (Richard Chamberlain)--who also happens to be extremely abusive. But his efforts to extricate her from the marriage, set against the flower-power scene in San Francisco, only frustrate him with her indecisiveness. The film features performances by the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company, and captures a sense of the confusion caused by the youthquake that swept the nation. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One of the Greats!
It took me awhile to see this film. Most of the time it was out of print and unavailable. It isn't a film they show on Sunday afternoons when people are spending time at home. It goes deeper and more complicated than most people are able to fathom, especially when watching it in a casual manner on TV. Luckily, I found a old copy of a paperback I probably got at a garage sale years ago in my basement. The book is wonderful and I highly recommend it. The book also helps understand the way the ... Read More
Rating:  - Pretentious claptrap.
Julie Christie parades her proletariat pout through 2 hours of psychedelic pretensions, all of which are seemingly supposed to suggest great profundity and hidden meaning--but don't be fooled--this is an empty parcel wrapped in glittering paper, with a core as resoundingly vacuous as the society it attempts to depict.
The story, (such as it is) concerns a chic young woman (Miss Christie as "Petulia") who picks up children and middle aged men with casual indifference to convention, ... Read More
Rating: - Um sorry, I Don't Get It
I found this movie to be very odd, and VERY hard to follow. While I agree Julie Christie is indeed beautiful, it is not enough to "save" this film which I found to be quite boring. I think the people in it spend a bit to much time trying to be "cool". The film takes itself too seriously and scatter-brained character of Ms. Christie doesn't help. I get the feeling that the director thought with beauty of Julie Christie who needs a storyline. Sorry, but wrong. The only "plus" for me were the 60's clothes and scenes ... Read More
Rating: - loved it!
I had seen this movie at least 20 years ago and I always wanted to see it again from a more mature viewpoint. The acting is excellent. Shirley Knight especially. This time around I wasn't as sympathetic towards the Julie Christie character, victim yes but also enabler. George C Scott amazing. The film quality is excellent. Julie Christie looks stunningly beautiful. Flawless skin. In hindsight we mock some of the crazy 60's fashions but seeing the clothes and hairstyles on Julie they actually work!
Rating: - not bad
maybe a classic to some but definately an artifact of its time. a movie for me that is interesting,pretentious and boring at the same time. i suggest you rent it first because if you don't like it,you'll be wondering what all the fuss was about.
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