Intimate Relations (1953 film)
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Duration Language English | Director Charles Frank Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 1953 (1953) Writer Charles Frank (screenplay), Jean Cocteau (play) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Intimate Relations is a 1953 British drama film directed by Charles Frank. The film was known in the U.S. as Disobedient. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
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Plot
Crisis in a middle-class family when the son falls in love with his father's mistress. Family ties are stretched to breaking point, and the mother fears she'll lose her son as well as her husband.
Cast
Critical reception
The New York Times's review concluded, "the film's highlight, one superbly conceived and well-performed scene with the father and girl at loggerheads over the boy. As we contend, the author does know better. He has perceptively hammerlocked youth and age, and until the half-way mark, the above-mentioned encounter, the quandary is genuinely intriguing. But M. Cocteau's triumphant rattling of the Oedipus legend tilts the apple cart, and some of his own dialogue provides the best summary. "What a nightmare!" moans Miss Spencer at one point. Mr. Warrender: "You're telling me" ; and more recently, TV Guide wrote, "the film is too talky and constricted by stage motifs. Enoch and Albiin, the mistress, do have a nice chemistry, though."
References
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