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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
The Idiosyncrasy of Middle Class
What amazes me the most is the portrait of all the characters. So natural, so... real (so uncomfortable, isn't?). In this motion picture, sir, everybody is civilized. There are no clichés or fake morality. Alex (Glenda) and Daniel (Peter) are devastaded inside, but they keep on moving... Divorce doesn't mean that your companion and all the memories of his/her died. And this movie shows it. Shows also that Bob (Murray), the lover in common, doesn't know how to love... he does it like 80% of the people in this world (young people mainly): childishly, one- dimensionally, conducted by his genital. This movie is for grown-ups. Mentally speaking, of course. The maturity of Glenda and Peter contrasted by the naive handsome looks of Murray was what Schlesinger gave us. Pay attention to it. Pay attention to the title. Glenda, Peter and Schlesinger are/were all geniuses.
By the way, I am a 22 year old Brazilian who identifies a lot with Schlesinger work, specially "Midnight Cowboy".
L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)
Incredible
Don't read ANY comments if you haven't seen it yet.
OH God, François Truffaut summarized so perfectly the stages of ... well, "non corresponded love". It's obsessive, but above all is the love of a lost, fragile woman.
Rejection told step by step in its consequences, brilliantly.
And then there's Isabelle Adjani. WOW. WHAT A PERFORMANCE! She REALLY incorporates a psychologically instable Adele and deserved the recognition she got (NYFCCA, NBR, NSFCA and was robbed of a much deserving Oscar, but who can beat the "hurricane" One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest?)
See IT and feel IT. Remember that it is based on a true story: you won't forget Adele H., her complexity and her nobility soon.