Intimate Reflections

1975 British film

Intimate Reflections

Directed by| Don Boyd
Screenplay by| Richard Meyrick
Produced by| Don Boyd
Starring| Anton Rodgers
Lillias Walker
Sally Anne Newton
Cinematography| Keith Goddard
Edited by| Clive Muller

Production
company

Kendon Films

Release date

* 4 November 1974 (1974-11-04)

Running time

| 86 minutes
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English

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.[1] It was Boyd's first feature film and premiered at the 1975 London Film Festival.[2][3] Boyd described it as a study both of sexual infidelity and the clash between youth and middle-age.[4]

## Plot

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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

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* 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

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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'.[4]

## Reception

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The film attracted little attention outside the 1975 London Film Festival and its limited theatrical release in the UK.[citation needed]

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."[5]

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."[6]

## References

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1. ^ "Intimate Reflections". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
2. ^ "London Film Festival 1975". BFI database. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
3. ^ "Intimate Reflections". BFI database. Archived from the original on 17 January 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
4. ^ a b Walker, Alexander (September 2005) [1985]. National Heroes: British Cinema in the 70's and 80's. Orion. ISBN 0-7528-5707-X.
5. ^ "Intimate Reflections". The Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 42, no. 492\. 1 January 1975. p. 239 - via ProQuest.
6. ^ "Intimate Reflections". Time Out (New York). Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2011.

## External links

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* Intimate Reflections at IMDb