''Intimate Reflections'' is a 1975 British independent

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film directed by

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and starring

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, Lillias Walker, Sally Anne Newton and Jonathan David. It was Boyd's first feature film and premiered at the 1975

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. 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

... Michael White * Lillias Walker ... Zonny * Sally Anne Newton ... Jane * Jonathan David ... Robert *

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... Salesman *

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... Bank Manager

Reception

The film attracted little attention outside the 1975 London Film Festival and its limited theatrical release in the UK. Boyd had hoped to interest British Lion in the film as a 'British ''

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but in the event they backed out, branding it as 'very specialised fare', although

Michael Deeley Michael Deeley (born 6 August 1932) is an Academy Award-winning British film producer known for such motion pictures as ''The Italian Job'' (1969), ''The Deer Hunter'' (1978), and ''Blade Runner'' (1982). He is also a founding member and Honora ...

did lend Boyd £500 to take it to the States and tart it around as his 'calling card'. However '' Time Out (New York)'' slated it thus

References

External links

* 1975 films British independent films Films shot in London Films directed by Don Boyd 1970s English-language films 1970s British films {{1970s-UK-film-stub