Great Britain

A SEARING EXPLORATION FOR LOVE AND LONELINESS. Julie Christie and Alan Bates star in this brilliant adaptation of Terence Rattigan's masterpiece. Oscar-winner John Schlesinger directs these two one-act dramas. In 'Table By The Window', Julie Christie plays Anne, an ageing fashion model, whose arrival at a hotel in Bournemouth is actually a contrived reunion with her ex-husband John, (Bates) a politician ruined by scandal. John has begun an affair with the hotel manager, Miss Copper. Anne's appearance rekindles their passionate love and they must choose between the emptiness of their lives apart and a love that threatens to destroy them. 'Table Number Seven' features Christie as Sibyl. the mousy daughter of a tyrannical mother, who harbours a secret love for the pompous Major Pollock (Bates). When a local newspaper exposes the 'major' as a fraud and sex offender Sibyl is forced to take a stand for the first time in her life.