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Accident

The story of a love triangle... and the four people trapped in it!

1967 · 1h 45m Drama, Romance
Directed by Joseph Losey

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Overview

Stephen 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, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, 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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The film's didactic indifference also makes it unclear whether Stephen ups the ante or gets his comeuppance in the end.

Martin Tsai, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

Bring a date, because you'll need to talk this one through.

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Fresh

Losey and Pinter locate the pain that lurks deep within complacency, and the film positively throbs with it. It's an old idea, perhaps. But in their hands it hurts anew.

Calum Marsh, Village Voice
Fresh

'Accident' now seems a little self-conscious in its modernist, 'quality' art-cinema pretensions.

Wally Hammond, Time Out

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