Darling [1965, UK, drama, DVD9 (custom)] MVO + Original

Twenty-something Italian Princess della Romita, better known to her British fans as Sussex-born Diana Scott (Julie Christie), is giving an interview to a reporter in which she describes her life. She is straightforward about the facts. She worked as a London-based model, most famously the Honeyglow girl, and had a moderately successful stint as an actress in small roles in commercials and films. She married her first husband Tony Bridges (T.R. Bowen) when they were both quite young, but she left him when she fell into an unplanned relationship with television journalist Robert Gold (Sir Dirk Bogarde), who was at the time married with a family. Although she and Robert never married, they lived together for some time. She and Robert split after she fell into an unplanned relationship with advertising executive Miles Brand (Laurence Harvey), the one who discovered her as the Honeyglow girl. She met her current husband, Prince Cesare della Romita (Jose Luis de Vilallonga) while she was working and vacationing in Italy. But behind these facts, she is less than forthright about her emotions in each of these moves, and the motivations for them. Were she forthright, she could expose herself as the vain, self-centered person she is--most understood by Miles, but someone Robert only began to understand too late.