Intimate Reflections
{{Short description|1975 British film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Intimate Reflections
| image =
| caption =
| director = Don Boyd
| story =
| producer = Don Boyd
| writer =
| screenplay = Richard Meyrick
| editing = Clive Muller
| music =
| starring = Anton Rodgers
Lillias Walker
Sally Anne Newton
| cinematography = Keith Goddard
| studio = Kendon Films
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1974|11|04}}
| runtime = 86 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
}}
Intimate Reflections is a 1975 British independent drama film directed by Don Boyd and starring Anton Rodgers, Lillias Walker, Sally Anne Newton and Jonathan David.{{Cite web |title=Intimate Reflections |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150039787 |access-date=10 January 2025 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}} It was Boyd's first feature film and premiered at the 1975 London Film Festival.{{cite web |url= http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/event/2865|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090114074252/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/event/2865|url-status= dead|archive-date= 14 January 2009|title= London Film Festival 1975|work= BFI database|access-date= 21 March 2011}}{{cite web |url= http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37741|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090117190402/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37741|url-status= dead|archive-date= 17 January 2009|title= Intimate Reflections|work= BFI database|access-date= 21 March 2011}} Boyd described it as a study both of sexual infidelity and the clash between youth and middle-age.{{cite book |last= Walker |first= Alexander |title= National Heroes: British Cinema in the 70's and 80's |publisher= Orion |date=September 2005 |orig-year= 1985 |isbn= 0-7528-5707-X}}
Plot
Robert and Jane are a middle-aged couple grieving over a dead daughter. Michael and Zonny are a young couple with a bright future ahead of them. The film dwells on their parallel lives.
Cast
- Anton Rodgers as Michael White
- Lillias Walker as Zonny
- Sally Anne Newton as Jane
- Jonathan David as Robert
- Peter Vaughan as salesman
- Derek Bond as bank manager
Production
Boyd had hoped to interest British Lion in the film as a 'British Emanuelle' but in the event they backed out, branding it as 'very specialised fare', although Michael Deeley did lend Boyd £500 to take it to the States and tart it around as his 'calling card'.
Reception
The film attracted little attention outside the 1975 London Film Festival and its limited theatrical release in the UK.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A virtual anthology of false 'good' ideas rendered in a thrice-told arts-and-crafts manner of endless replays, the film cannot even take up a relatively modest notion or conceit ... without driving it into the ground."{{Cite magazine |date=1 January 1975 |title=Intimate Reflections |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305831079 |url-access=subscription |magazine=The Monthly Film Bulletin |pages=239 |via=ProQuest |volume=42 |issue=492}}
Time Out (New York) wrote: "Surely the worst film of the year ... no amount of special pleading, bonhomie towards experiment, or explanation of motive can hide the fact that the result is like a synthesis of every bad detail of every bad undergraduate film you've ever seen."{{cite web|url= http://www.timeout.com/film/newyork/reviews/76122/intimate-reflections.html|archive-url= https://archive.today/20120913185855/http://www.timeout.com/film/newyork/reviews/76122/intimate-reflections.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= 13 September 2012|title= Intimate Reflections|work= Time Out (New York)|access-date= 21 March 2011}}
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