Darling is the 1965 romantic drama from celebrated filmmaker John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, The Believers, The Day of the Locust, Pacific Heights). Diana Scott (Julie Christie) is a young English rose gifted less with brains and ambition than an uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time. Wanting something more than her council-flat, working-class background can provide, Diana chooses marriage as her way out, but she quickly sheds her bumbling teenage husband when she meets Robert Gold (Dirk Bogarde), a well-known (and married) TV journalist who becomes infatuated with the free-spirited young model and eventually succumbs to her demand that he leave his wife for her. Domestic bliss proves short-lived, however, as Robert's quiet, scholarly, and intellectual life-style bores the restless Diana out of her wits. Seeking a more exciting world than Robert can offer, Diana allows rich cad Miles Brand (Lawrence Harvey) to seduce her. Becoming part of his fast-moving 'swinging' set, Diana heads off to the Continent and finds herself running around with a wild crowd.moreless
