Petulia

"It´s a very real film about two people trying to get through to each other," director Richard Lester (A Hard Day´s Night) says of his landmark romance Petulia, set in summer-of-love-era San Francisco.

There Julie Christie plays a unhappily married socialite trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor (George C. Scott), who in his own words just wants to "feel something." He´ll soon feel, even hurt, a lot. Because we know why kooky Petulia so desperately reaches out. As Lester zigzags through the flashbacks and flash-forwards of cinematographer Nicolas Roeg´s startling images and Lawrence B. Marcus´ knowing screenplay, Petulia´s jigsaw pieces form a celluloid time capsule of life and love in the turbulent ´60s.