A few years after his widely acclaimed Harold Pinter collaboration The Servant, Joseph Losey reteamed with the writer for Accident, starring Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, and Jacqueline Sassard. Newly restored by the BFI National Film Archive in association with Studiocanal, the drama will now begin a theatrical run at Film Forum, courtesy of Rialto Pictures, starting December 18 before expanding nationally in select markets, and we’re pleased to debut the new trailer.
Here’s the synopsis: “Stephen (Dirk Bogarde), a married Oxford professor, struggles with his sexual attraction to young Austrian student Anna (Jacqueline Sassard) and subtly competes with his friend Charley (Stanley Baker) and pupil William (Michael York) for her affections. Unfolding with screenwriter Pinter’s trademark time-shifting, and framed by the rupture of a violent car crash,Accidentexplores hidden tensions and the moral gray areas of desire.”
With a screenplay by Nobel Prize-winning English playwright Harold Pinter (his third collaboration with Losey following The Servant and The Go-Between), Accident won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival (1967), was named one of the National Board of Review’s Top Ten Films (1967), received the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for Best British Screenplay (1968), and was nominated for four BAFTAs, including Best British Film, Best British Actor (Dirk Bogarde), and Best British Screenplay (Harold Pinter).
See the exclusive trailer premiere below.
