Petulia R

Julie Christie and George C. Scott star in this brilliant film about a divorced surgeon and his relationship with an unhappily married kook, set against the mid-'60s San Francisco scene.
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  • ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: June 28, 2016
  • Originally Released: 1968
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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User Ratings: 943
...an anti-The Graduate ... an essential film from and about America in the dying days of the '60s, yet the modernism of its style and ambitions makes Petulia impressively ahead of that time. Full Review
Film.com
Jan 25, 2008
Rating: 4/5 -- Curious one-shot US film in the midst of Lester's British period
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Nov 6, 2002
Rating: C -- I thought this film was more claptrap than anything else. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 5/5 -- Julie Christie in her Oscar role + Richard Lester direction. Enough said.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Mar 8, 2008
Petulia is a strange, lovely, nervous little film, very jaggedly cut (by Richard Lester, who also directed Help! and How I Won the War) so that the parts don't quite match and the plot is almost scattered through. Full Review
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Jack-rabbiting technique embodies foreboding and dissonance rather than gimmicky whimsy Full Review
CinePassion
Mar 16, 2010
Rating: 4/4 -- It is the coldest, cruelest film I can remember, and one of the most intellectual... It is lifeless, heartless bloodless, the expression of Lester's abstract thought about the American way of life. And it is terribly effective. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 24, 2004

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Julie Christie plays an unhappily married socialite who is trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor (George C. Scott), who, in his own words, just wants to "feel something." He'll soon feel, even hurt, a lot. Because we know why kooky Petulia so desperately reaches out. As Lester zigzags through the flashbacks and flash-forwards of cinematographer Nicolas Roeg's startling images and Lawrence B. Marcus' knowing screenplay, Petulia's jigsaw pieces form a celluloid time capsule of life and love in the turbulent '60s.

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  • UPC: 888574409678
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