Outside of the fact that making this film meant to free trip to Italy, there's no reason for it being. There's really no story, and there's not even a real scene between the leading character of Katherine (Julie Christie) and the title character (Michael Sarrazin). However, Sarrazin and Christie do share scenes with the charscter of Daniel (John Hurt), Catherine's brother, a shy loser who has a difficult time relating to women and only comes to life went around Gregory.
Catherine is considering for the wedding of her father (Adolfo Celi) to a younger woman, and spends the film asking about the elusive Gregory and getting to know her brother, whom one might suspect is gay. In fact, Hurt is the only really interesting character in the film, and the character of Gregory is boring in spite of seemingly having a very vivacious life. The only time that Sarrazin and Christine are even in a scene together is at a very loud and violent smash up derby sequence where Gregory is a driver.
A good looking film on the surface, that's really all this has to offer outside of Hurt's performance. Even the Oscar-winning Christie is sadly dull here. This is not so much a bad film as it is just a pointless one, a huge waste of time that audiences were spared rushing to during the highlight of Christie's popularity. But just because it wasn't accessible to film goers back in 1969 doesn't mean that it's easy to escape now, and curiosity Seekers will regret that they even wasted an hour and a half on it.
Catherine is considering for the wedding of her father (Adolfo Celi) to a younger woman, and spends the film asking about the elusive Gregory and getting to know her brother, whom one might suspect is gay. In fact, Hurt is the only really interesting character in the film, and the character of Gregory is boring in spite of seemingly having a very vivacious life. The only time that Sarrazin and Christine are even in a scene together is at a very loud and violent smash up derby sequence where Gregory is a driver.
A good looking film on the surface, that's really all this has to offer outside of Hurt's performance. Even the Oscar-winning Christie is sadly dull here. This is not so much a bad film as it is just a pointless one, a huge waste of time that audiences were spared rushing to during the highlight of Christie's popularity. But just because it wasn't accessible to film goers back in 1969 doesn't mean that it's easy to escape now, and curiosity Seekers will regret that they even wasted an hour and a half on it.