A complex, smart drama with excellent and well played characters. I didn't sense condescension toward Julie Christie's "amoral", "decadent" escapades as Diana. She is strong-willed but weak in character, fickle and impulsive but not cold or calculated, she is sensitive and secretly miserable, and it is easy to sympathize with her.

One of those films that probably had it's hand on the pulse of the times but doesn't hold up so well, though the performances and some individual scenes are good enough to make it work. It's mainly a film about the ennui and moral hypocrisy of the upper class with Christie playing the female counterpart of Marcello in La Dolce Vita. Like that film a charismatic lead makes it watchable but it gets lost in the glamour and while it occasionally bares teeth never bites.

A ditzy and not terribly ethical gal messes around Swinging London. Do I care? If so, why?

Brilliant performance by Julie Christie (& she won the Oscar for it, too). Diana Scott is one of the 60s first antiheroes. You feel a tremendous amount of sympathy for her even though you know she lacks the self awareness & discipline that she needs to improve her life & make it all work. Lacerating study of the jet set lifestyle that was just coming into popular culture.

Fantastic film. Julie Christie and Lawrence Harvey are both phenomenal.