#HAROLD GUPPY INTIMATE RELATIONS MOVIE#

Reviewed by Theo Robertson 5 / 10 Has A Bizarre Feel It's well made, and well acted, but in the end, it is a disturbing disappointment. There are probably many people out there that would enjoy this movie, but personally I can't recommend it. I like surprise endings most of the time, but in this case it just didn't work for me. It fails to shed any light on the rest of the film. You never really feel the ending coming and when it happens, it's not only a surprise, but a disappointing surprise. The ending, especially, leaves something to be desired. You can't really stop watching it but you wish you could and by the time it's over you wish you'd never started.

#HAROLD GUPPY INTIMATE RELATIONS MOVIE#

Then things get darker and not so funny anymore and that is when the movie begins to fall apart. It starts off well enough and plays through the first 30 or 40 minutes as a black comedy. A film without a hero is not necessarily a bad thing all by itself, but you have to handle it properly. As a result, it's impossible to identify with any of the characters and the movie breaks down. Everybody in the movie eventually does something that causes you to question their integrity or decency and you never really understand the underlying motivations causing the behavior. Beasley insists that Harold call her 'Mum,' a word he later has tattooed upon his arm) only adds to the bitter humor.Reviewed by Undead_Master 4 / 10 Captures your interest, but falls apart Still, Intimate Relations is a well-made film that aptly captures the flavor of post WW II England and contains many memorable lines.That the three try so hard to keep up the appearances of a normal household (Mrs. That the trio's characters are so broadly drawn, even bordering on cariactures, lessens the impact and the actual horror of the case. Though it is not difficult to guess that none of the three protagonists will come to a good end, the graphic nature of the story's climax is jarring and out of place in the otherwise low-key and rather dry comedy. Thus begins an inescapable downward spiral for the weak-willed Harold that culminates in a desperate and horrific act of violence. Joyce is very much awake and spends the night scheming to get Harold to come to her. Beasley and Harold quietly resume their cavorting. The row awakens Joyce who pops into Harold's room and refuses to leave until the would-be lovers allow her into the bed. That night she creeps to Harold's bedroom and pleads with him until he weakens and accepts her advances and they begin to make wild love. Things seem normal enough until a fateful game of spin-the-bottle during Joyce's 14th birthday party reveals an entirely different side to Mrs. hasn't had relations with him in years and forces him to sleep in his own room) WW I survivor who despite his missing leg, still supports his family. Harold soon meets the rest of the family, the fresh-faced, bright, but rather macabre Joyce (Laura Sadler in her feature-film debut), and Mr. Beasley seems the epitome of 1950s motherhood and good housekeeping. With her rhinestoned glasses, boxy dresses, short bouffant, and prim take-charge manner, Mrs. Unable to stay with his brother, Harold finds lodging in the home of friendly, late-middle-aged Mrs. It doesn't help that the callow Harold reveals a troubled, though somewhat cloaked past. The reunion is tepid, for Maurice's wife Iris (Elizabeth McKechnie ) is suspicious of Harold and unwilling to welcome him into her home. The tale begins as Harold Guppy (Rupert Graves ) leaves a ship and ambles toward the home of his long-lost brother Maurice Guppy (Les Dennis ). In retelling this true story, first-time filmmaker Philip Goodhew offers a blackly comic and ironic look behind the proper lace curtains of a seemingly normal British household and reveals a seething pit of repressed lust, jealousy and deadly obsession.

In 1954, all of England was rocked by a shocking crime that took place in a quiet coastal town and involved a socially upstanding landlady, her smart, newly blossomed teenage daughter, and a handsome but troubled Australian in search of family he had never known.

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