| Intimate Reflections | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Don Boyd |
| Screenplay by | Richard Meyrick |
| Produced by | Don Boyd |
| Starring | Anton Rodgers Lillias Walker Sally Anne Newton |
| Cinematography | Keith Goddard |
| Edited by | Clive Muller |
Production company | Kendon Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Intimate Reflections is a 1975 British independent drama film directed by Don Boyd and starring Anton Rodgers, Lillias Walker, Sally Anne Newton and Jonathan David. [1] It was Boyd's first feature film and premiered at the 1975 London Film Festival. [2] [3] Boyd described it as a study both of sexual infidelity and the clash between youth and middle-age. [4]
Robert and Jane are a middle-aged couple grieving over a dead daughter. Michael and Zonny are a young couple with a bright future ahead of them. The film dwells on their parallel lives.
Boyd had hoped to interest British Lion in the film as a 'British Emanuelle' but in the event they backed out, branding it as 'very specialised fare', although Michael Deeley did lend Boyd £500 to take it to the States and tart it around as his 'calling card'. [4]
The film attracted little attention outside the 1975 London Film Festival and its limited theatrical release in the UK.[ citation needed ]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A virtual anthology of false 'good' ideas rendered in a thrice-told arts-and-crafts manner of endless replays, the film cannot even take up a relatively modest notion or conceit ... without driving it into the ground." [5]
Time Out (New York) wrote: "Surely the worst film of the year ... no amount of special pleading, bonhomie towards experiment, or explanation of motive can hide the fact that the result is like a synthesis of every bad detail of every bad undergraduate film you've ever seen." [6]