''The Peaches'' is a 1964 British
short film
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...
, narrated by
Peter Ustinov.
In 1964 the film was the British choice for the
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...
and is a sensual, surreal fantasy about a beautiful woman and her passion for peaches. The 15-minute story, which opens with a woman splayed on a bed rubbing her face with a ripe peach.
Directed by
Michael Gill
George Michael Gill (10 December 1923 – 20 October 2005) was an English television producer and director responsible for creating documentaries for the BBC.
Biography
Gill was born in Winchester, Hampshire but was brought up in Canterbur ...
and written by
Yvonne Gilan, his then wife, it stars
Juliet Harmer
Juliet Linda Harmer (born 11 May 1941) is an English artist, children's author and actress who was best known in the role of Georgina Jones in the BBC TV series ''Adam Adamant Lives!'' (1966–67).
Early career
Juliet Harmer trained as a Pr ...
as the Very Beautiful Girl,
Tom Adams as The Boy Next Door, and is narrated by
Peter Ustinov. It also features an appearance from the nine-year-old
A. A. Gill, son of the director and writer.
The film charts the coming of age of this clever and beautiful girl and her
fetish for fruit. In search of kindred spirits of like intellect, she goes to live in the city, but finds herself cleaning in "the Ministry". She then falls in love, and the peaches become less important as her love grows. Bizarrely she transfers her craving to
pickled onions.
''The Times''/BFI download
accessed 1 August 2009.
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