Moments is a 1974 British drama film directed by Peter Crane and starring Keith Michell, Angharad Rees and Bill Fraser.[1][2] The screenplay concerns a man who has lost his wife and daughter in a car crash who returns to a hotel where he had once enjoyed happiness.

Moments
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Crane
Written byMichael Sloan
Produced byPeter Crane
David M. Jackson
Michael Sloan
StarringKeith Michell
Angharad Rees
Bill Fraser
CinematographyWolfgang Suschitzky
Edited byRoy Watts
Music byJohn Cameron
Production
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Pemini Organisation
Distributed byColumbia-Warner Distributors
Release date
  • 21 November 1974 (1974-11-21)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Cast

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Critical reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "[The film's] conceptually avant-garde characteristics come over not as Borgesian strategies interrogating the very notion of 'reality', but as slick pirouettes prevented from spinning too far outside the confines of a saccharine, woman's magazine-style story ... director Peter Crane has characters move in and out of focus, into and out of frame, like the grey figures which haunt their memories. But such stylistic metaphors fail to excuse the essentially adolescent, wish-fulfilment nature of the entire Peter-Chrissy relationship. To the apologist who argues that this is precisely the point (the tawdry, beleaguered imaginings of a desperate man), one is tempted to answer that the film's title also was a clever intimation of just how much – or how little – is left to anchor one's interest."[3]

Home media

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Moments was released on the Blu-ray The Pemini Organisation (1972–1974) (Powerhouse Films, 2022) with two other films also directed by Peter Crane and written by Michael Sloan: Hunted (1972) and Assassin (1973).

References

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  1. ^ "Moments". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  2. ^ BFI.org
  3. ^ "Moments". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 41 (480): 253. 1 January 1974 – via ProQuest.
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