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Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling. Although she's married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair that has each of them leaving there spouses in order to move in together. But Darling is far from done she goes through a series of men on her way to the top, which is not quite what she expected it to be. Schlesinger deals with key ideas such as superficiality, reality and pretence, conventional and unconventional living and in particular Ephemera. It captures 1960s London like few other films could. The reaction to the British New Wave movement, which was strong in the sixties, is clear in the film, especially in relation to realism, sexuality and the role of women in society. The film starts with Christie’s eye in extreme close-up on the camera, the eye is supposed to be the window into the soul but as we find out for Diana, this is not so, ”A lie can be shown with integrity, just like anything else”. Diana Scott (Christie) is against conforming to societies conventions. She has freedom with no responsibility, lacks morals and stability and as a result finds hersel