Interview with Julie Christie (on Darling), 1988:
“I often wonder what it was that Darling offered that was new... I didn’t see it then but now I realise that there weren’t many images of men-free women at all, of a woman who would actually go out and pursure her own goal. That was Darling; whether she was condemned for it or not (and she was, in the end, wasn’t she)- she was extraordinary ... Here was a woman who didn’t want to get married, didn’t want to have children like all those other kitchen-sink heroines; no, Darling wanted to have everything. Of course at the time, this was seen as greedy promiscuity and she had to be punished for it. But there was an element of possibility for women, of a new way of living, which is why the film was such a success”
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