| 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. It was Boyd's first feature film and premiered at the 1975 London Film Festival. Boyd described it as a study both of sexual infidelity and the clash between youth and middle-age.
Plot
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.
Cast
- Anton Rodgers as Michael White
- Lillias Walker as Zonny
- Sally Anne Newton as Jane
- Jonathan David as Robert
- Peter Vaughan as salesman
- Derek Bond as bank manager
Production
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'.
Reception
The film attracted little attention outside the 1975 London Film Festival and its limited theatrical release in the UK.
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."
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."
References
- "Intimate Reflections". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- "London Film Festival 1975". BFI database. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- "Intimate Reflections". BFI database. Archived from the original on 17 January 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ Walker, Alexander (September 2005) . National Heroes: British Cinema in the 70's and 80's. Orion. ISBN 0-7528-5707-X.
- "Intimate Reflections". The Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 42, no. 492. 1 January 1975. p. 239 – via ProQuest.
- "Intimate Reflections". Time Out (New York). Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2011.