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Girl With Green Eyes

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Innocent Kate Brady (Rita Tushingham) leaves her family farm and heads for Dublin, where she lives with her former convent friend Baba Brennan (Lynn Redgrave). She soon meets older man Eugene (Peter Finch), who is a writer and intellectual. Kate and Eugene fall in love. However, when Kate's father finds out about their romance, he is determined to break it up. Kate remains devoted to Eugene, but their love disintegrates when Eugene realizes that he really has nothing in common with Kate.

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Arlene Billinkoff Winnipeg Free Press The camera is used as a painter's brush and a surgeon's scalpel as it delineates each feature in countless expressions. Aug 18, 2021 Full Review Joan Didion Vogue I like the story so much that I wondered for a long time why I so disliked the picture, why it seemed so spurious. Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Frank Urbach Los Angeles Free Press Rita Tushingham is sheer delight as the girl. Feb 5, 2020 Full Review Ann Flaherty LIFE It's a refreshing treat. Oct 15, 2019 Full Review Dwight MacDonald Esquire Magazine It has humor, always a link to outside reality, and its theme is broad enough to interest both sexes. Aug 13, 2019 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews The film that made Rita Tushingham a star. Rated: B Jan 17, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member another of the UK's 'angry young men' films but with a twist this time it's an angry young woman, the gr8 Rita Tushingham. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member worth seeing... they dont make movies like this anymore Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member It has the charm of the New Wave French films Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member ok not really my cup-o-tea Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member This first film by Desmond Davis is imaginative, takes chances, and has the sympathy to draw perceptive performances. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Compare this to the present An Education. Its the same thing, only 60 years earlier. What a rip off by Education. Adored Rita in this film, but the fast talking Redgrave and locals weren't always easy to understand. The camera work and dialog wasn't always smooth and reminded me of A Hard Days Night, another black and white sixties film. This is, at least to me, an improbable story about a girl interested in a mature older man twice her age. He's divorced and she lives in Dublin with a girlfriend, living in their apartment and speaking that Irish accent that sounds like leprichons. I swear, I could not understand most of the dialog in the film. You don't know how she got off the farm away from her folks, but supposedly to go to a parochial school. Although presented initially as a shy and introverted person, she becomes the opposite around her room mate and this man. While I looked forward to seeing this film, I could not make it to the end without stopping it and doing something else. It did not hold my attention even though I much about it, primarily the actors. Why or how can this be? I do not know. It is something about the sound I think. I noticed that it appeared that the voices were dubbed. The actors speaking usually seemed disembodied. I have witnessed this phenomena before and it is always disconcerting. It's as if there were no microphones on set. The whole relationship and therefore the plot is a reach. I could only hope for a girl half my age being interested in me. I onced dated a girl a two-thirds my age and after a month found her unbearable and silly. This relationship was doomed from the start, unfortunately, but it started so wonderfully. A coming of age movie in black and white and regretfully became hard to watch as every minute passed by. Peter Finch, as the older man, is as good as he ever was in this one. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Innocent Kate Brady (Rita Tushingham) leaves her family farm and heads for Dublin, where she lives with her former convent friend Baba Brennan (Lynn Redgrave). She soon meets older man Eugene (Peter Finch), who is a writer and intellectual. Kate and Eugene fall in love. However, when Kate's father finds out about their romance, he is determined to break it up. Kate remains devoted to Eugene, but their love disintegrates when Eugene realizes that he really has nothing in common with Kate.
Director
Desmond Davis
Distributor
United Artists
Production Co
Woodfall Film Productions
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 10, 1964, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 19, 2017
Runtime
1h 31m