1967 · drama · british
Accident
Directed by Joseph Losey1h 45m1967
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.
Our read: Accident (1967) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, grounded drama · british entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama / british, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- bleak
- cold
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