The Buttercup Chain

The Buttercup Chain is a 1970 British drama film directed by Robert Ellis Miller and starring Hywel Bennett, Jane Asher, and Leigh Taylor-Young. It was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The film is an adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same title by Janice Elliott. It was shot at Shepperton Studios and on location in England, Sweden and Spain. The film's sets were designed by the veteran art director Wilfred Shingleton.

The Buttercup Chain
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Directed byRobert Ellis Miller
Written byPeter Draper
Based onThe Buttercup Chain by Janice Elliott
Produced byLeslie Gilliat
Philip Waddilove
John Whitney
StarringHywel Bennett
Leigh Taylor-Young
Jane Asher
CinematographyDouglas Slocombe
Edited byThelma Connell
Music byRichard Rodney Bennett
Production
company
Columbia British Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • 24 September 1970 (1970-09-24)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Plot

France and Margaret are cousins, born on the same day to twin sisters. They grow up feeling a bond as if brother and sister. When he returns to London from boarding school, France and Margaret make a pact in which each finds a suitable romantic partner for the other. But when they go away to the countryside with Manny and Fred, a strange incestuous impulse seems to exist between the cousins, while Manny also must deal with a pregnancy.

Cast

Reception

Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote: "(Director) Miller and his screen writer, Peter Draper, avoided any revealing psychological confrontations in favor of making one of those depressingly modish movies in which the sensations created by things like slick photography, beautiful nudes and intrusive soundtrack music become the substance of the film, instead of its context."[2]

References
  1. "Festival de Cannes: The Buttercup Chain". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  2. "Screen: Sudsy, Sentiment:Robert Miller Directs 'Buttercup Chain'". New York Times. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
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