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Accident

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Stephen (Dirk Bogarde) 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 (Michael York), is engaged to the beautiful Anna (Jacqueline Sassard), 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.
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Critics Consensus

A film arguably ahead of its time, Accident boasts strong performances to match its thought-provoking themes.

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Pauline Kael The New Republic 09/19/2023
Accident is nasty fun -- a fascinating, rather preposterous movie, uneven, unsatisfying, but with virtuoso passages of calculated meanness. Go to Full Review
Brendan Gill The New Yorker 08/15/2022
Pinter conveys this progressive, irreversible disaster with words, and Mr. Losey conveys it with precise pictorial correlatives. The two men make an exceptionally gifted and intelligent team, and I hope they will go on working together for a long time. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 07/03/2018
3.5/4
The subtle, controlled performances of the principal actors make this work. Go to Full Review
Serge Daney Cahiers du Cinéma 09/14/2022
Accident is a vain and over-stylized film of relentless aesthetic stringency. Go to Full Review
Judith Crist New York World Journal Tribune 08/08/2022
[Accident is] a film to watch with fascination and brood about afterward. And if ultimately we are left to question whether it is worth the brooding, at very least we are left also with the satisfaction of having watched two master craftsmen at work. Go to Full Review
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com 02/17/2021
4/5
...less of a kitchen sink drama than an Aga saga. Jospeh Losey's Accident taps into a vein of hidden misogyny in British society with intrepid verve and some great, incisive work from Dirk Bogarde and Michael York... Go to Full Review
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Erika B Oct 23 In this film, every character's life is a car crash! See more 12/05/2020 What is so great about Anna that makes every man want to possess her? She is beautiful, she's possibly from Austrian nobility (or maybe her name is just really long), and she has an interest in philosophy. She barely speaks so that is what we know of her. And what did William want to tell Samuel the night that he died? We'll never know. Oh, this is a fine bit of melodrama, but it lacks details that might elevate it. See more 05/04/2020 "Ne yapacağımı bilmiyorum, ona doyamıyorum. Ne yapmalı, bilmiyorum" Nicholas Mosley'in aynı adlı romanından uyarlanan film, Oxford Üniversitesi'nden iki akademisyenin ilgi duyduğu Avusturyalı bir kadın öğrenci ve ona ilgi duyan bir İngiliz öğrencinin; bir kazanın kaderlerini belirlediği arzularının hikâyesi. Oldukça ağır tempolu. Pinter ile Losey'in üç iş birliğinden ikincisi ama bir The Servant değil. See more 04/22/2020 "Ne yapacağımı bilmiyorum, ona doyamıyorum. Ne yapmalı, bilmiyorum" Nicholas Mosley'in aynı adlı romanından uyarlanan film, Oxford Üniversitesi'nden iki akademisyenin ilgi duyduğu Avusturyalı bir kadın öğrenci ve ona ilgi duyan bir İngiliz öğrencinin; bir kazanın kaderlerini belirlediği arzularının hikâyesi. Oldukça ağır tempolu. Pinter ile Losey'in üç iş birliğinden ikincisi ama bir The Servant değil. See more 02/20/2019 Technically well done, but the intentionally-written passivity of Jacqueline Sassard's character Anna makes her more of a cipher than she otherwise should have been, and robs Accident of a believable prize for the male leads to fight over. See more 02/25/2016 Fine drama as dirk Bogarde is a frustrated university lecturer who yearns for an affair with a young pretty student See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Stephen (Dirk Bogarde) 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 (Michael York), is engaged to the beautiful Anna (Jacqueline Sassard), 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.
Director
Joseph Losey
Screenwriter
Harold Pinter
Production Co
Royal Avenue Chelsea
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 17, 1967, Limited
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
May 23, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA)
$17.2K
Runtime
1h 27m