Sunday, July 27, 2014

Separation (1968)


London Independent Producers
Directed by Jack Bond
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, BFI)

Jane Arden and her husband are separated after many years of marriage. She takes refuge in the arms of a new, younger, lover, indulging in the swinging London lifestyle. She occasionally meets up with her husband, a psychiatrist, where they talk about their relationship in indirect ways. Heavily influenced by the French New Wave, with location shooting, quick edits, scenes repeating themselves, and other experimental techniques, it flirts with pretentiousness but has just enough insight into the core relationships to keep it on track.

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