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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Sunday Bloody Sunday, it observes adult dissatisfaction with unusual patience, letting emotional evasions and class tensions emerge through everyday encounters rather than melodramatic plotting.
02
Why this pick
Joseph Losey’s poised, melancholic drama shares its predecessor’s restrained English sensibility and focus on desire, social codes, and the damage done by relationships that cannot be openly acknowledged.
03
Why this pick
A quietly searching portrait of a woman rebuilding her emotional life, with the same intelligent attention to adult vulnerability, independence, and the compromises hidden inside apparently modern relationships.
04
Why this pick
Its extended conversations and unstable triangle make it a bracing companion: candid about sexual freedom yet deeply attentive to loneliness, dependence, and the gap between frankness and emotional honesty.
05
Why this pick
It shares Glenda Jackson’s film’s unsentimental empathy for an adult woman negotiating desire and autonomy, balancing lived-in domestic detail with sharp, sometimes painful emotional observation.
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01 / THE STORY
Set in London, the film tells the story of a middle-aged Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch), and a divorced woman in her mid-30s, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson), who are both involved in an open love triangle with sculptor Bob Elkin (Murray Head), a younger man in his mid-20s. Not only are Hirsh and Greville both aware that Elkin is seeing the other but they know one another through common friends. Despite this, they are willing to put up with the situation through fear of losing Elkin, who switches freely between them.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Daniel Hirsh
Alex Greville
Bob Elkin
George Harding
Alva Hodson
Bill Hodson
Prof. Johns
Scotsman
