Carnal Knowledge

Name: Carnal Knowledge
Genre: Drama
Released: June 30, 1971
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Ann-Margret, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen, Carol Kane, Cynthia O'Neal

1971

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Embassy Pictures | Release Date: June 30, 1971 | R

Starring: Ann-Margret, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen, Carol Kane, Cynthia O'Neal, Jack Nicholson, Rita Moreno

Summary: Chronicling the lifelong sexual development of two men who meet and befriend one another in college.

Director: Mike Nichols

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 98 min

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Roger Ebert

Carnal Knowledge is clearly Mike Nichols' best film. It sets out to tell us certain things about these few characters and their sexual crucifixions, and it succeeds. Read full review

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Vincent Canby

More than any other film Nichols has made, Carnal Knowledge reminds me of his stage work at its best, particularly of the highly stylized Luv in which low comedy techniques were employed to illuminate material that might otherwise seem too cruel, or too anti‐heroic for a dramatic medium. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

An uneven but unusually thoughtful melodrama, Carnal Knowledge avoids most of the the trendy excesses that make some other films of its era so difficult to watch today. Read full review

Pauline Kael

As Mike Nichols has directed the material, the effects are almost all achieved through the line readings, and the cleverness is unpleasant -- it's all surface and whacking emphasis.

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As a slice of familiar Feiffer cynicism, tracing the arid sex life of two contrasting males from eager college days to drained middle age, this was never quite the major assault on sexism and male chauvinism it set itself up to be. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowlede is a rather superficial and limited probe of American male sexual hypocrisies. Read full review

Dave Kehr

The picture has its moments of chilling insight, though essentially it is one more quaint early-70s stab at an American art cinema that never materialized. Read full review

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