Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

rgcustomer I get that this is an important film for its time. But I can't let that justify the ineptitude of filmmaking it represents.Actually, no, let's go back to that time. It presents one of cinema's few seriously-treated (and therefore politically viewed) bisexual characters as not simply compatible with a man and a woman, but inflicting painful half-relationships on both simultaneously. It's not a true love triangle, but a love vampire's V. Some people cannot commit, but it's not because they are bisexual. It's a shame that the film's then-refreshing portrayal of a gay man came at the expense of a stereotyped bisexual.But back to now. It's annoying watching two people who have no interest in each other try to share the same self-centred third person romantically, knowing full well what the end result is going to be. I just couldn't care about any of them.Then, those kids. They were straight out of a horror movie. The less said about them, the better. Except: that scene with the dog... it's both gratuitous and laughably-executed.I did feel that the filmmaker at least made an attempt to place our two doomed lovers into current and past context, but these scenes just jumped out of nowhere, for no apparent reason. They didn't really help explain the characters at all.The picture itself, the colours that ended up on film, ... just dreary.But at least we have footage of period phone technology. Where would we be without that?!What would I recommend instead? I don't think I know of any with a plot like this. But some dealing with bisexuality or love triangles are: Les chansons d'amour (2007), The Dreamers (2003), both starring Louis Garrel. Y tu mamá también (2001).

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews Well-off Jewish doctor Daniel and middle-aged divorceé Alex have two things in common... their phone-service and the deep love they both feel. For Bob, the young artist. They both realize that they are sharing him, and the situation isn't entirely to the liking of either of them. But they fear stirring the pot, as they might lose him entirely. They both clearly have difficulty with being left by him(perhaps her more than him), something the enthusiastic Elkin either doesn't understand or doesn't care about. This is a mature piece on relationships(note the immense difference between how the two generations behave towards their partner) and sexuality(and this is rather direct and unapologetic, as well as never gratuitous, in its depiction thereof). It focuses on the emotions and the attachment, and it will not appeal to everyone. There are those who will call it slow and uneventful. In reality, it is not about grand occurrences, it's about little moments, mood and character interplay. The writing is excellent. Dialog is meaningful and impeccably delivered. The acting is strong from the leads, and no one is bad. Even the children are pretty good. The music is great, if at times overbearing. This is dated, but not necessarily in a bad way; it gives us the 70's, for better or for worse. Environments of politics, family life, drugs, homosexuality are explored. The DVD comes with a trailer for this. I recommend this to anyone who finds what I describe here engaging. 7/10

Deniz Ziya Toroslu The movie starts with a well, interesting scene which Dr. Daniel Hirsh examines one of his patients. Then, weird angles, unusual zooms, at least for such a movie and surprising flashbacks. The director chooses separating the movie into parts according to the days. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, then back. Therefore, we wait for ''The Bloody Sunday'', we wait for the shocking day, the tragic events, but it never comes, nothing happens. Then what is the purpose of the movie? May be, just to analyze human being relationships. This is the only good side of the film. In my opinion, it tries to point out that some people use your love. You adore them, you worry about them, but they don't care about you. They only consider their interests. Sometimes, they are interested in you, usually when they reach their goals or when they are disappointed with the person who they give importance or when things go worse. When you 'wake up', those people are alarmed. In other words, they become you: you who are afraid of losing him, her. However, no more than that. What is the function of the children? Nothing. They make noise, they chatter... When the little girl's dog dies, Alex thinks deeply ??? Why this couple look after these children? By the way, this is not an entertainment movie at all, if you wonder. Lastly, the speech of Dr. Hirsh was unusual, but does not save the movie.

st-shot Three of the British Film Industries finest artists are in peak form for this somber tale about uncommitted relationships and coping. Londoners Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) and Dr.Daniel Hirsh. (Peter Finch) are both intimately involved with an impetuous young artist Bob Elkins (Murray Head). They would both like something more permanent but Elkins prefers his carefree existence as he moves from bed to bed with some but little concern for each partner's feelings. The story moves back and forth from Greville's life to Hirsh's dealing with their everyday existence and the people they come in contact with in 70's London. They are fairly common lives and there is little excitement to this film which ends without resolving much. Yet it is an engrossing and highly polished piece of cinema featuring brilliantly controlled performances by Jackson and Finch. They are wonderfully ordinary, with foibles and bad judgment at times but overall decent and quietly desperate like most of the human race. Director John Schlesinger provides a great stage for his actors but he also manages to nicely incorporate the London scene in which they exist with striking imagery and the same mesmerizing flash back jump cutting that powered Midnight Cowboy. There are times it can be disjointing but overall Schlesinger succeeds with his depiction of decaying society as he did with New York in Cowboy and would with Hollywood in Day of the Locust. In his prime as he was here, Schlesinger was a master of social commentary and blending character to their environment. Sunday is challenging but worth it.