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Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a role that would garner her an Oscar as Best Actress. Although she's married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair that has each of them leaving their spouses in order to move in together. .. Read more

Starring	Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey, Alex Scott
Director	John Schlesinger, Bryan Forbes
Genres	Drama

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  An under-rated classic: The L Shaped Room
  
  The L-shaped Room, by far the superior of the two films on this double act DVD is a smoothly acted, compellingly sensitive and intelligent film. With ... read more »
  
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  - Maryco
  - UK
  - 07 Aug 2004 at 21:46
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  A Dated Darling
  
  It's hard to believe that Julie Christie won an Oscar for her role as an ambitious, amoral model in this film as it strikes me that her performance is one ... read more »
  
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- - Minopater
  - 251 reviews
  - Wallington
  - 27 Mar 2012 at 13:31
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  Sixties London
  
  Darling is a film I have enjoyed watching many times. It is of the period and shows London as a city gaining a special sense of 'cool', however ... read more »
  
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- - Viveka
  - 5 reviews
  - 25 Feb 2012 at 21:39
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  Julie Christie Darling
  
  Julie Christie,Well I watched this years ago ,sorry not as good as I remember it's OK,and if you've not seen it before worth a watch.
  
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- - Deeleeds
  - 59 reviews
  - Leeds
  - 05 Feb 2012 at 22:11
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  chicks and bird
  
  Terrible non kitchen sink drama in which model female juggles model males. Beware, it's monochrome. It was life like I thankfully never knew it, I wish.
  
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- - juradino
  - 701 reviews
  - London
  - 12 Jan 2012 at 02:17
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  Story of an icon
  
  Few people incarnate the swinging 60s better than the beauteous Julie Christie, here in one of her iconic roles as a selfish model who burns through a series of... read more »
  
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- - RJNeb2
  - 772 reviews
  - London
  - 27 Aug 2011 at 20:53
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  Fading into classic cinema
  
  Glorious glorious movie well deserving its place in the cinema time capsule.I suppose set into the context of the time when it was released, the morality, or ... read more »
  
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- - ash53
  - 53 reviews
  - newbury
  - 14 Apr 2011 at 09:01
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  The old ones are still the best ones
  
  This is an old favourite of mine. It sums up for me the mid 1960s in Britain. Julie Christie deserved the Oscar and also Dirk B ogarde's is very good
  
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  - cornwall
  - 07 Jan 2011 at 09:47
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  Charming But Brain Dead
  
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  If the measure of art is not to look good but rather to provoke an emotional reaction, then this film certainly hits the spot. Julie Christie played one of the... read more »
  
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  - Staffordshire, England
  - 23 Feb 2010 at 19:00
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  Nostalgic disappointment
  
  I remembered this film well from my misspent youth it was a defining 60's piece with which I could at that time identify - you can see how misspent my youth... read more »
  
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  - bellahinton
  - 17 reviews
  - St Austell
  - 18 Aug 2009 at 23:28
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  Oh my darling
  
  Far too long but watching Julie Christie press the self destruct button has some amusement value. Catches some of the rootless excitement of the 60's and ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 11 Jul 2009 at 23:35
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- - 9
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  An under-rated classic: The L Shaped Room
  
  The L-shaped Room, by far the superior of the two films on this double act DVD is a smoothly acted, compellingly sensitive and intelligent film. With ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 307382
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  - Maryco
  - UK
  - 07 Aug 2004 at 21:46
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  Two for one
  
  The L-Shaped Room
  
  Leslie Caron plays a French girl who comes to London for an abortion. She takes up lodgings in a run down London house peopled by a... read more »
  
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  - leamington
  - 19 Oct 2004 at 08:00
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  Caron and Christie
  
  Two excellent films set in 60s London. In The L-Shaped Room, a pregnant and unmarried French girl finds love and friendship amongst the assorted tenants in a ... read more »
  
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- - Leon Collins
  - London
  - 26 Aug 2005 at 18:23
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  L shaped room/Darling
  
  I requested this as my mother barred me from watching it when it was released. Not suitable for a young girl.
  
  I enjoyed it even though it is rather ... read more »
  
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- - runragged
  - N Somerset
  - 01 Mar 2005 at 19:01
- - 3
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  portrait of a lady
  
  Julie Christie plays an intriguing complex woman. This was the film that made her famous I think and you can see why, her luminous, intelligent beauty so ... read more »
  
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- - Hilda
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  - London
  - 30 Jan 2008 at 22:06
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  60s
  
  This film is a representation of the way some young women lost their way in the 60s. Growing up at this time, one came across many who were just seeking fun ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 21 Aug 2007 at 08:57
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  Charming But Brain Dead
  
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  If the measure of art is not to look good but rather to provoke an emotional reaction, then this film certainly hits the spot. Julie Christie played one of the... read more »
  
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  - Staffordshire, England
  - 23 Feb 2010 at 19:00
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  Two '60s classics
  
  An excellent double-slice of London life in the 1960's.
  
  The L-Shaped Room is a gritty look at low-rent life but amidst the tetchy landladies and ... read more »
  
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- - Jim Cameron
  - Wadhurst
  - 01 Nov 2004 at 13:22
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  L Shaped Room
  
  This is real life drama at its best - understated, believable and well acted. A film you can see over and over again.
  
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- - PMCG
  - Devon
  - 06 Apr 2005 at 17:16
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  'SWINGING SIXTIES'
  
  The first hour of this film is fun. Given that the 60s are back in fashion - you get a real taste of the thoughtless decadence of the time. Julie Christie is ... read more »
  
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- - edward cole
  - London (central)
  - 13 Apr 2007 at 12:07

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  Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a role that would garner her an Oscar as Best Actress. Although she's married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair that has each of them leaving their spouses ...