The Arrangement (1969)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 127m
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr, Richard Boone
Synopsis:
An advertising executive suffers a car crash and reappraises his life choices, deciding to rekindle an affair with an old love.
Review:
Based on Kazan's own long novel, this was always going to be a compromise of adaptation. The director goes for a modernist fragmentary approach, to chronology for example, and at the time the film did not fare well with audiences, who could not connect with the characters. Viewed now, all those sixties chic stylings may win over the aesthetes, and Dunaway is good, but Douglas is frankly too old to be Dick Boone's son (the director wanted Brando, which would have been slightly better). The film had quite a lot of nudity for the time.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 127m
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr, Richard Boone
Synopsis:
An advertising executive suffers a car crash and reappraises his life choices, deciding to rekindle an affair with an old love.
Review:
Based on Kazan's own long novel, this was always going to be a compromise of adaptation. The director goes for a modernist fragmentary approach, to chronology for example, and at the time the film did not fare well with audiences, who could not connect with the characters. Viewed now, all those sixties chic stylings may win over the aesthetes, and Dunaway is good, but Douglas is frankly too old to be Dick Boone's son (the director wanted Brando, which would have been slightly better). The film had quite a lot of nudity for the time.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 127m
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr, Richard Boone
Synopsis:
An advertising executive suffers a car crash and reappraises his life choices, deciding to rekindle an affair with an old love.
Review:
Based on Kazan's own long novel, this was always going to be a compromise of adaptation. The director goes for a modernist fragmentary approach, to chronology for example, and at the time the film did not fare well with audiences, who could not connect with the characters. Viewed now, all those sixties chic stylings may win over the aesthetes, and Dunaway is good, but Douglas is frankly too old to be Dick Boone's son (the director wanted Brando, which would have been slightly better). The film had quite a lot of nudity for the time.