Die Clique (1966)
65KDie Clique: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight. After graduating from a prestigious Eastern university, eight devoted women friends go their separate ways: one leaves for Europe, while the others experience troubled relationships. Sadly, they get to meet one last time as a group.
“One of Sidney Lumetu0026#39;s first directing attempts is a brilliant, powerful and undeniably courageous motion picture – not at all a sprawling frenzy of feelings strung by hammy performances and corny dialogues, this film is a rather organized , neat telling of eight graduates from Vassar-like college and their respective lives and times, that in itu0026#39;s own quiet way, became a masterpiece of great beauty, displaying strong, formidable performances by Pettet – as Kay Strong, a lovely young lady whose promissing future is teared to shreds as her cruel Play Writing husband ruins her life and slowly corrompts her mental sanity -, Hackett – as Dottie Renfrew, whose heart is broken by young, hip bohemian, that steels her virginity and commits herself to a futile, selfish fate – and Hartman(One Of The Most Wonderful Actresses That Ever Lived, And Whose Life Was Brought To A Horrid Ending, As She Comitted Suicide, Jumping Off Her Apartment Window) – as a pure , fragile young girl that has agonizing experiments with pregnancy and breast-feeding, as well as other cast members, like Bergen, Widdoes, fascinating Knight and Walter. This is adapted from Mary MacCarthyu0026#39;s brilliant novel, launched at the same time as u0026#39;Valley Of The Dollsu0026#39;, Jacqueline Sussanu0026#39;s hideous all-american best-seller – althoughu0026#39; they both treat of feminine sagas, they are surely not to be confused.”
