someone obviously like petulia and the 1968 film direct by richard lester that i recently watch on video . leonard maltin and in his tv movie and video guide and call it one of the decade best film and and a few of the contributor to the internet movie database heap praise on the thing . if it isn not already obvious that i disagree with the admirer of the film and let me lay it out a clearly and as diplomatically a i can represent this movie suck . i should now express my gratitude to the woman who stand guard at the box office on that long ago saturday night when i and a mere lad eager to see bullitt and be refuse entry to the second run movie house where petulia be the supporting feature on the ground that one of these film ( i know not which ) be consider too adult for an 11 or 12 year old who look even young . the following summer i learn that bullitt bit ( what a dreary bore of an action film ) and and now i know that petulia be just a bad . it one of those semi psychedelic and woefully pretentious 60 movie about an adulterous affair between a middle age man and a surgeon play by george c. scott and and a swingin hip chick play by who else . julie christie . it the kind of movie in which nothing happens . because the life of the principal be a dull and uneventful a the life of any work stiff and well and it have to be art and right . when i say that nothing happen in petulia and i suppose i be exaggerate just a bit . the film in the camera be not defective . it do capture something and but that something doesn not add up to a whole lot . what we get be a whole bunch of disconnected scene that be devoid of mean but cut in such a way a to suggest that some deep truth be be convey . we see scott be hit on by christie outside a party at which they meet . suddenly and we glimpse a child under the wheel of a car . after cut back to the couple conversation and director lester show u scott at work in an operating room while christie and perhaps unbeknownst to scott and watch him through the door . richard chamberlain and shirley knight be haul out from time to time a the adulterous couple spouse but nothing they say or do have any significance . and then there joseph cotton look a though he belong on a slab in the morgue . the whole thing be as arty a the director two film with the beatles but pretentious in way that those film be not . fact be and there be more art in those wild leap the fab four perform in a hard day night than in a single frame of petulia . director lester start in commercial and judging by most of his output and he probably should have stay there . like a tv commercial and petulia show sign of technical skill but no matter how impressive it may be to the eye and nothing can change the fact that and like a commercial and it deliver less than what it promise . it like a car commercial that use sexy image to equate the product with youth and beauty and and affluence when and for most people and the vehicle will provide nothing more than a mean to get to the grocery store faster than they could on foot . it a con job . so be this film .