Darling

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Julie Christie as Diana Scott in the 1965 film Darling stands on a boat deck wearing a light blue swimsuit, with rocky cliffs and water in the background.

Darling

film by Schlesinger [1965]

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John Schlesinger
British films
…moved to centre stage for Darling (1965), a corrosive portrait of an amoral woman who changes professions (model, actress, countess) as often as she changes lovers. Although some critics found her performance stilted, Christie won an Academy Award for best actress, and Frederic Raphael won the award for his screenplay,…
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…moved to centre stage for Darling (1965), a corrosive portrait of an amoral woman who changes professions (model, actress, countess) as often as she changes lovers. Although some critics found her performance stilted, Christie won an Academy Award for best actress, and Frederic Raphael won the award for his screenplay,…
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Julie Christie
Early life and films
…self-destructive fashion model in Schlesinger’s Darling. That same year she appeared as the romantic heroine Lara in David Lean’s enormously successful screen adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago.
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…self-destructive fashion model in Schlesinger’s Darling. That same year she appeared as the romantic heroine Lara in David Lean’s enormously successful screen adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago.
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