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Need some help - Which Julie Christie movie.......


I'm trying to remember a Julie Christie movie which...I don't think I saw it but I remember seeing a scene from the movie. This is what I remember, Julie Christie is a middle-aged woman in bed with a much younger man. Of course she's stunningly beautiful, IMO one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen, and the young man is handsome. He's stroking her body, gives her a smile, and says something like "I love your skin, it has like a thousand tiny wrinkles in it." Like he was an explorer in a foreign land commenting on the landscape. She's kind of horrified in that moment and you could just see her thinking...this was a mistake.

Does this ring a bell for anyone here?

At that moment I just thought to myself, if aging is good enough for Julie Christie, it's good enough for me! As if I have a choice. But it really was comforting in a weird way?

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Maybe its afterglow, i think. Julie had some love scenes with Johnny Lee Miller. i think that this is the movie. And julie looks amazing beautiful and sexy in it.

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Thank you. I'll check it out.

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Well, certainly it could be "Afterglow". However it could be also the wonderful "Miss Mary" (1988) directed by Argentinean prestigious filmmaker Maria Luisa Bemberg, but it could also be "Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy" aka "Sins of the Fathers" (1987) a beautiful UK/German/French/Italian co-production, and, one of the biggest budgeted European mini TV-series, of the 1980's and 1990's, which also had a good U.S. TV release. These are mainly all 'the movie situations' i can remember. It sounds to me you might be referring to "Miss Mary", however. In fact, she lays in bed there with an handsome younger boy, and there's an after love making conversation with the young man, who happens to be the oldest boy of a very wealthy, strictly minded, somewhat politically ambiguous, Argentinean family where Miss Mary is given a much higher on demand job, as the British governess in charge of giving the best cosmopolitan education to the children, while she would be ending up trying to change also their harsh vision of life, their lack of true sentiments, and their right wing spirits. A very good movie, where Julie was perhaps not photographed at her best (maybe, intentionally, they wanted to just depict her as a classic, believable British governess who eventually shows also other sides, but not the glamour's star one, so in that movie she looks also a tiny bit older of her 46/47 years old at the time of shooting. Many think that she looked so much younger in "Hamlet" shot almost 10 years later and in "Afterglow" filmed over 10 years after "Miss Mary" was completed!), but the film was extremely well shot and realistically, beautifully told, and, it is also remembered as the Argentinean writer and filmmaker's best movie ever made.

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Thank you so much. That sounds like the scene I remember. I'll try to find it online.

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