Tim
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
I can't speak for the book as I haven't read it, but the film of the same name starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, amongst others, is funny, witty, tragic depressing, liberating and so on etc etc!!! It is one of the best films in the English language bar none, and if you slag it off before you even watch it, then curses on you!!! But seriously, if you need a film that fulfills all your needs, and of course if your American Gabriel promises(or threatens) to go to California, then this is the film for you! It is a landmark in British film making, and shows something of England before reality, or modernity, hit our shores. It makes me weep everytime I watch it, and I am about as much a rural southern englishman as any of you reading this, but, the film is a powerful interplay of human life as you can imagine. Anyway, I love it!!<br><br>Tim Hughes