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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 7, 1999
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen & Ann-Margret | |
Performer: | Cynthia O'Neal, Carol Kane & Rita Moreno | |
Directed by | Mike Nichols | |
Edited by | Sam O'Steen | |
Screenwriting by | Jules Feiffer | |
Produced by | Mike Nichols | |
Director of Photography: | Giuseppe Rotunno |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Ah, the sweet smell of '70s American cinema when anything was possible.
ColeSmithey.com
A sharp reflection about the relationship between young men and women. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
This was never quite the major assault on sexism and male chauvinism it set itself up to be.
Time Out
Rating: 4/4 --
Stays within the universe of its characters, and inhabits it totally. And within that universe, men and woman fail to find sexual and personal happiness because they can't break through their patterns of treating each other as objects.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 5/5 --
In addition to being the toughest comedy since Little Murders, and the most imaginative comedy since Catch 22, Carnal Knowledge represents a nearly ideal collaboration of directorial and writing talents.
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New York Times
... an acerbic and, in many ways, dispiriting portrait of masculinity and male sexuality in the post-World War II culture.
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Turner Classic Movies Online
A rather superficial and limited probe of American male sexual hypocrisies.
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Variety
Product Description:
Charting the shift in America's sexual mores over the course of three decades, Mike Nichols's thoroughly provocative drama focuses on the bitter experiences of two middle-class American males. Jonathan (Jack Nicholson), a cruel but charismatic misogynist, and Sandy (Art Garfunkel), a bland idealist, meet as roommates at a small New England college in the 1940s. As their friendship progresses through the following decades, their search for the ideal woman leads to failed marriages, bad relationships, and emotional emptiness.
Nichols is particularly adept at negotiating the twisted psychological terrain established by acclaimed cartoonist-turned-screenwriter Jules Feiffer. While Nicholson is, as always, fascinating to watch, the supporting women, including Candice Bergen and Ann-Margret, supply the film with its soul. In addition to employing a shadowy film noir technique that underscores the movie's exploration of the uncertainty in relationships, Nichols also shoots CARNAL KNOWLEDGE in long close-ups, which adds even more intensity to the already savage, bleak vision of men, women, and ill-fated romance.
Nichols is particularly adept at negotiating the twisted psychological terrain established by acclaimed cartoonist-turned-screenwriter Jules Feiffer. While Nicholson is, as always, fascinating to watch, the supporting women, including Candice Bergen and Ann-Margret, supply the film with its soul. In addition to employing a shadowy film noir technique that underscores the movie's exploration of the uncertainty in relationships, Nichols also shoots CARNAL KNOWLEDGE in long close-ups, which adds even more intensity to the already savage, bleak vision of men, women, and ill-fated romance.
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- Sales Rank: 129,405
- UPC: 027616785428
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