Darling

1965

Directed By

John Schlesinger

Synopsis

Winner of three Academy Awards® and four BAFTAs, including Best Actress for Julie Christie, Darling is the fabulously lavish and critically acclaimed motion picture set in London in the heart of the swinging sixties.

Darling is the story – based on fact – of a goodtime-girl of the era. She’s a freelance female who moves from bed to bed on the presumption that fidelity means having only one man in it at a time, and opportunistically bends her ambitions to take advantage of whatever (or whomever) the moment offers her. There are three men in her life, each of whom willingly or involuntarily helps her on her way to the top: Dirk Bogarde plays a TV interviewer, an honest man striving to tell illusion from reality; Laurence Harvey, an advertising executive, totally cynical about manipulating society’s values; and Roland Curram, a gay magazine photographer feeding parasitically on glossy society. There is also a ‘fourth man’ – the one whom Darling marries, only to find herself a prisoner of the smart world she has conquered.

One of the coolest and most defining films of the sixties, Julie Christie and Dirk Borgarde were perfectly cast, immortalising onscreen their status as the ultimate 1960s screen icons.

Cast
Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde & Laurence Harvey
Other Credits

Written By Frederic Raphael

Release Date
16 June 2025
extras
  • New Sofia Coppola on Darling
  • New Let’s Call It Darling: An Interview with Frederic Raphael
  • New After a Fashion: Julie Harris’s Costumes for Darling
  • Excerpt from BEHP audio interview with John Schlesinger
  • Behind the Scenes stills Gallery
  • Costume Designs Gallery
  • Original Theatrical Trailer
Restoration Details

Darling was scanned in 4K 16-bit by FILMFINITY, UK, using the best 35mm film elements available.  Colour grading was completed in 4K HDR (Dolby Vision) by Filmfinity.  Digital restoration specialists dedicated over 350 hours to this project using advanced image processing tools to repair imperfections and damage.

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