Moments | |
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Directed by | Peter Crane |
Written by | Michael Sloan |
Produced by | Peter Crane David M. Jackson Michael Sloan |
Starring | Keith Michell Angharad Rees Bill Fraser |
Cinematography | Wolfgang Suschitzky |
Edited by | Roy Watts |
Music by | John Cameron |
Production company | Pemini Organisation |
Distributed by | Columbia-Warner Distributors |
Release date | 21 November 1974 |
Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Moments is a 1974 British drama film directed by Peter Crane and starring Keith Michell, Angharad Rees and Bill Fraser. [1] [2] The screenplay concerns a man who has lost his wife and daughter in a car crash who returns to a hotel where he had once enjoyed happiness.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "[The film's] conceptually avant-garde characteristics come over not as Borgesian strategies interrogating the very notion of 'reality', but as slick pirouettes prevented from spinning too far outside the confines of a saccharine, woman's magazine-style story ... director Peter Crane has characters move in and out of focus, into and out of frame, like the grey figures which haunt their memories. But such stylistic metaphors fail to excuse the essentially adolescent, wish-fulfilment nature of the entire Peter-Chrissy relationship. To the apologist who argues that this is precisely the point (the tawdry, beleaguered imaginings of a desperate man), one is tempted to answer that the film's title also was a clever intimation of just how much – or how little – is left to anchor one's interest." [3]
Moments was released on the Blu-ray The Pemini Organisation (1972–1974) (Powerhouse Films, 2022) with two other films also directed by Peter Crane and written by Michael Sloan: Hunted (1972) and Assassin (1973).
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