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  Review by 🖤 ★★★ 2

  boohoo my pussy’s too good

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★ 3

  I love to throw a party where you dance in a circle in front of a projector showing nothing to jazz music

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  Review by Dylan ★★★★½ 4

  A bleak world of widespread rapacity, lying, and self-delusion, where each character's path constantly reveals itself, and John Schlesinger doesn't manipulate emotion or overdramatize, expressing each person's tormented soul with a delicate beauty and unshakable truth of feeling. The characters' actions and motivations are completely described by them in straightforward and direct conversation that is neither contrived nor judgmental. Darling jumps between bright and dreary, pondering the cost of deception and the anguish of attempting to build a reputation for yourself when you don't have anything, acting more as a broad social allegory than anything else.

  A basic narrative and complicated central character is the key to a successful story. Diana Scott is a lady with high expectations, obsessive thinking,…

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  Review by Sam ★★★★ 2

  Julie Christie’s outfits are characters themselves.

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  Review by Sam ★★★★½ 1

  Diana Scott is a glamorous woman who has no limits, however her independence and lack of containment is a limit within itself. Her life consists of roaming around the streets of London, fooling with men, and getting glimpses of whatever job she wants, but she is in a constant state of boredom despite this intense freedom. The relationships she puts herself in - whether they’re long or short - always feel dry, which is a subtle way that John Schlesinger critiques both femininity and masculinity. The ability she has to present herself as a model is an unprecedented way to cover up the difficulty and emptiness of her personal lifestyle. At one point in the film, she becomes the literal princess of a country, yet her sentiment is unsatisfactory. When under control, she’s unhappy, when over control, she’s bored.

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  Review by eely 🌻 ★★★★

  “thank god it’s never too late. two people can really belong to each other.” 

  this is marketed as a story about a vapid and shallow girl, but diana really isn’t vapid or shallow in the ways that matter. she never believes in herself. she’s constantly looking for herself but she only ever gets glimpses. she’s trapped in a fishbowl and swimming in circles, constantly forgetting her own mistakes and choosing to look at her past through rose colored glasses. it’s tragic to be such a romantic that you lose yourself inside of other people. I think this movie captures that beautifully.

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  Review by Chris 🍉 ★★★★★ 2

  “All lies are true at the time.”

  You may think this is a satirical representation of how vapid and unfeeling one gets along with their surroundings when climbing the socioeconomic ladder but actually it’s an entire movie about how if you break dirk bogarde’s heart you will never be happy again for the rest of your life

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  Review by alanisㅤ󠀠󠀠󠀠 ★★★★½ 2

  it should be so easy to be happy. it should be the easiest thing in the world. i wonder why it isn’t? 𐙚 ₊˚⊹

  ౨ৎ this movie is soo me coded! ♡ it has everything i absolutely adore: beautiful cinematography, stunning outfits and an amazing soundtrack. this is definitely the type of film that cinephiles would totally love! — me included ♡

  this is such a melancholic yet uplifting film. i truly loved diana! ♡ i really wanted to be a 1960s it girl like she was. would it be weird if i said that i identify so much with her? haha ♡

  — a special thanks to my dear friend bruna for recommending this film to me ♡

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  Review by sydney lou who 3

  imagine throwing away dirk bogarde like that. could never be me. i'm a lesbian but the point still stands.

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  Review by Zoë 🐛 ★★★★

  It's The Age of Innocence of the Swinging 60s. Much like how The Age of Innocence is about the Gilded Age's extravagance for the rich being a veneer covering up the suffering of the marginalized and impoverished (while the glamor of upper class life still causes dissatisfaction for the rich themselves) Darling is about how the jet set model and actress lifestyle of a beautiful white woman in the press is papering over (literally, in the film's credits) classism, racism, and post-colonialism in the late 60s (and Diana's own discontent with her situation). Diana is not a likable character because she's not meant to be. She represents the shallow aesthetic, the privilege taken for granted. The men she dates aren't…

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  Review by theo ★★★

  diane was really that girl

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  Review by Tylot Lantern ★★★★

  Ghastly is my new favourite word.