John and Mary

Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow   d/ Peter Yates

Oddly off little film from 1969. Both leads were young and charming but many of the secondary scenes involving other people clunked badly.

The basic structure was boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl. So conventional. I wonder how this played to an young audience then? Not too well I'd guess. This was long after major changes in cultural sensibilities had taken place...the same year as Woodstock.

Written by John Mortimer...which may have been the problem. Nicely shot - she looked luminous in spite of the hollywood makeup. I almost cared about their fate. But not quite.

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