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Accident

1967 · 105 min

A chilly, slow-burning study of repressed desire and moral decay, unfolding through fragmented memories with an unsettling, quiet tension.

Directed by: Joseph Losey
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard

Tagline: The story of a love triangle... and the four people trapped in it!
Overview: Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.

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Directed by: Joseph Losey
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
betrayal
class
identity
guilt
Places: small town
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Action	2
Horror	2
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	4
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: romance, drama
Directed by: Joseph Losey
Written by: Harold Pinter
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York, Vivien Merchant, Delphine Seyrig, Alexander Knox, Ann Firbank
Music: John Dankworth
Cinematography: Gerry Fisher
Runtime: 105 min
Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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