What is so great about Anna that makes every man want to possess her? She is beautiful, she's possibly from Austrian nobility (or maybe her name is just really long), and she has an interest in philosophy. She barely speaks so that is what we know of her. And what did William want to tell Samuel the night that he died? We'll never know. Oh, this is a fine bit of melodrama, but it lacks details that might elevate it.

"Ne yapacağımı bilmiyorum, ona doyamıyorum. Ne yapmalı, bilmiyorum" Nicholas Mosley'in aynı adlı romanından uyarlanan film, Oxford Üniversitesi'nden iki akademisyenin ilgi duyduğu Avusturyalı bir kadın öğrenci ve ona ilgi duyan bir İngiliz öğrencinin; bir kazanın kaderlerini belirlediği arzularının hikâyesi. Oldukça ağır tempolu. Pinter ile Losey'in üç iş birliğinden ikincisi ama bir The Servant değil.

"Ne yapacağımı bilmiyorum, ona doyamıyorum. Ne yapmalı, bilmiyorum" Nicholas Mosley'in aynı adlı romanından uyarlanan film, Oxford Üniversitesi'nden iki akademisyenin ilgi duyduğu Avusturyalı bir kadın öğrenci ve ona ilgi duyan bir İngiliz öğrencinin; bir kazanın kaderlerini belirlediği arzularının hikâyesi. Oldukça ağır tempolu. Pinter ile Losey'in üç iş birliğinden ikincisi ama bir The Servant değil.

Technically well done, but the intentionally-written passivity of Jacqueline Sassard's character Anna makes her more of a cipher than she otherwise should have been, and robs Accident of a believable prize for the male leads to fight over.

Fine drama as dirk Bogarde is a frustrated university lecturer who yearns for an affair with a young pretty student

A wonderfully emotive script, without being too wordy with solid direction to pull it off on screen.

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Beautifully filmed, and well acted, a Harold Pinter script (and minor role), with a score by John Dankworth, this film has a lot going for it, and stands the test of time very well. The characters are all very up tight and polite, reminding me somewhat of recent film Archipelago, though there is a lot more going on here than in that. However, it's hard to like most of the characters, and it makes pretty much all life has to offer seem very bleak and empty.

Understated and complex. A fine collaboration of Bogarde, Losey and Pinter.

Losey precisely paraphrases Oxford to a playground for affairs: Everything is licit, even accidents. Professors Stephen & Charley are pawns in the game, meanwhile aristocratic students William & Anna are noblemen. As we follow Stephen's choices, it is clearly seen that Stephen is the only character making inquiries of his role in playground, furthermore the one disclaims his social class until accident occurs. Accident night is the awaking time for Stephen to argue indistinctness, and occasion giving him replacing his pawn with noblemen(William) that is out of game.

Thoroughly unpleasant people doing thoroughly unpleasant things to each other in a thoroughly good film. Dirk Borgarde is wonderful as the surprisingly unsympathetic Stephen. I would have found him to be a more sympathetic character were Anna not played by such an obviously beautiful actress. I think rather than just falling for a beautiful (and painfully dull) woman, the whole story would've been more interesting were Anna a plainer (but no less attractive) girl, which would've highlighted Stephen's situation a little better. Anyway, the only likeable character in the whole thing is Stephen's wife, who wisely calls both Anna and Charley 'stupid', and unwittingly, by association, Stephen too. Spot on, that woman!

Intense, compelling film with Michael York, Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker meeting gorgeous Jacqueline Sassard, and clashing verbal swords over her in that creepily repressed, passive-aggressive British style. Also interesting to see screenwriter Harold Pinter turn up in a cameo as a television executive. I looked up Sassard on IMDB, and was intrigued to learn that she had quite a solid acting career and then abruptly quit at age 28. I wonder why?

Freshly restored by the British Film Institute and reissued, this is a typically dark and brooding Harold Pinter tale of bad behaviour and meaningful silences among the privileged and selfish. The acrimony and adultery is fuelled by endless boozing - I can't remember seeing more drinking in a film this side of 'Withnail & I'. ' Accident' is beautifully filmed and acted - you really can believe in Dirk Bogarde as an Oxford professor whose philosophy books don't help at all with his mid-life crisis. The lack of a single truly likeable major character makes 'Accident' an uncomfortable watch, but it's still powerful because its theme of middle-class manoeuvring and meanness is sadly timeless.

good second teaming of acor/writer/director

Almost like an English version of an alan resnais film at times. It's a very fine one in it's own right with a great cast. Adapted by Harold Pinter from Nicolas Mosley's novel (with both playwright and novelist guest starring). In terms of the story not all a lot actually happens but it's all in the performance's and the execution.

Let me put it out there right from the beginning. The feelings I had after I watched this movie are: disconnected and pretentious. I can go on and on about why I didnt enjoy the movie but the truth was i was more frustrated at how some of the good ideas (and there are plenty) that simply didnt work as a result of bad pacing, jerky/wrong editing and the lead actress' performance (in which the men are suppose to fall all over her) who obviously went to the Barbara Bach School of Acting. I seriously think she looked dead in the last scene as she taxied out. So kudos for the efforts but when it didnt blend in or when execution was lacking in finesse and flair, sadly it became pretentious. I was more interested in finding out what happened to the professor who bought the ladder...

Another superb collaboration between writer Harold Pinter and director Joseph Losey and actor Dirk Bogarde. Pinter, lauded as the "master of pauses" in theatre brings this deliberately contemplative atmosphere to the film as we watch the characters in the film say more with their silence than they so often do when speaking. The cast is top-notch, as if the exceptional photography, editing and production design. This is one of those films that can really transport me to the time and place where and when it was made, in this case late 60s England. Highly recommended for fans of cinema who take pleasure in "moody" films, ones which require the viewer to be an active participant in the experience of watching.

Boring, but beautifully shot.

vu au cinéma L'Autan à Ramonville lundi 7 juin 2010 à 21h dans le cadre du cycle "Revoyez vos classiques".

Un chef d'oeuvre de Joseph Losey. Un scenario de Pinter. Comme dans The Servant, L'affrontement des classes sociales mais cette fois entre professeurs d'Oxford. Beaucoup dans le non-dit. Un film elegant aux dialogues subtils. Mes chouchous Dirk Bogarde et Stanley Baker (ceux de Losey aussi). Et Delphine Seyrig en apparition comme dirait Truffaut. Et le fameux plan final où l'on voit les rails du travelling.