Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude ( Harold and Maude ) is an American film of Hal Ashby left in 1971.

Synopsis

The improbable meeting between Harold, suicidal young man 20 years resulting from the high bourgoisy, and Maude, a militant nonconformist who will celebrate his 80 years. It will learn the life with Harold, which is the joy, happiness and the love, which he did not learn near a cold and strict mother.

Harold and Maude , one time, a frame of mind

Genuine “film worship”, Harold and Maude defrayed the chronicle in the whole world, having to undergo different Restriction S or Interdiction S (of prohibition to less than 12 years to prohibition with less than 18 years according to the countries). Typical of the Years 1970, it celebrates the Liberté, the Nature and spontaneousness all while being opposed by the Humor to the Militarisme and the social Convention S. The preferred pastime of the main character, Harold, being to attend the burials and to walk in the cemeteries, the term Harolding , founded on the neologism to harold was invented by the amateurs of film having decided to adopt this distraction. The term of Maudianism was also forged to indicate the “Philosophie of life” of the other character-title, Maude.

Data sheet

  • Title: Harold and Maude
  • original Title: Harold and Maude
  • Realization: Hall Ashby
  • Scenario: Hake Higgins
  • Photography: John Alonzo
  • Assembly: William A. Sawyer and Edward Warschilka
  • Distribution of the roles: Lynn Stalmaster
  • Decorations: Michael To haul
  • Costumes: William Theiss
  • Music: Cat Stevens, Tchaikovsky ( Concert for piano n°1 ), Johann Strauss ( blue the Danube Beautiful )
  • Production: Hake Higgins and Charles B. Mulvehill for Paramount
  • Format: Colors (Technicolor) - 1,85:1 (negative: 1,37:1) - mono - 35 mm
  • Coming out date: December 20th 1971 (the USA)

Distribution

Around film

  • the majority of the songs of Cat Stevens are found on its album Tea for the Tillerman .
  • It is the single notable main role of Bud Cort that one had previously noticed in his mentor Robert Altman ( M.A.S.H. , Brewster McCloud ).
  • the film was exploited of exclusiveness during several years in Paris.
  • Of its scenario, Colin Higgins made thereafter a novel and a play.

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