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Sunday Bloody Sunday
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 16, 2003
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson & Murray Head | |
Performer: | Peggy Ashcroft, Vivian Pickles, Tony Britton, Maurice Denham & Bessie Love | |
Directed by | John Schlesinger | |
Edited by | Richard Marden | |
Screenwriting by | Penelope Gilliatt | |
Composition by | Ron Geesin | |
Produced by | Joseph Janni | |
Director of Photography: | Billy Williams |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Groundbreaking character study very much of its time, but still worthwhile.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: B --
The film's more liberal sexual attitude was ahead of its time.
Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
[I]t works on the level of documentary-like observation and novelistic stream-of-consciousness...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 2/4 --
...the film's '70s excess prevents it from ever becoming anything more than a time-capsule curiosity.
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Reel Film Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]his is a poignant study....Schlesinger explores the impact on the middle-class of 1960s attitudes to sex and class....He also elicits performances of great sensitivity...
Empire
...A landmark in gay cinema...
USA Today
Rating: 3/4 --
at its best plays as a powerful, deeply human reminder of how desperate we can be for connection, however compromised it may be
Full Review
Q Network Film Desk
Product Description:
Directed by John Schlesinger, SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY is a sociologically astute drama about the bisexual love triangle between three characters navigating the changing mores of the early-1970s sexual revolution. Gay doctor Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and divorced working woman Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) are both involved with the same man--the much younger and rather self-absorbed bisexual sculptor Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Rather than keeping the simultaneous affairs a secret, Bob has chosen to make Daniel and Alex perfectly aware of each other's existence, leading to melancholy ruminations on the shifting nature of love, sex, and relationships in an increasingly fractured British society. Considered groundbreaking for its frank depiction of homosexuality (as well as featuring one of the first onscreen same-sex kisses), the film's nonjudgmental approach to its characters' seething loneliness is shaped by Penelope Gilliatt's intelligent script, Schlesinger's fluid direction, and the disarmingly honest performances of its two leads. SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY deftly straddles the line between character study and social commentary, offering mature drama that is both specific to its era and disconcertingly prescient.
Keywords:
British
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Classic
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Gay / Lesbian
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Love Story
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Love Triangle
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Art / Artists
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Recommended
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Doctors
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Theatrical Release
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London, England
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Homosexuality
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Love Affairs
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Artists
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Affairs
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Love Triangles
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1970s
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Bisexuality
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Love
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 120,028
- UPC: 027616895370
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item