A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score Carlos in terms of total contribution to the film, but there remained the opportunity to present the music in a separate album, which led to this collection. The record label did not attempt to use images from the movie on the album cover. The image chosen was a surrealistic collage of objects and images representing ideas in the film by visual artist Karenlee Grant. These included a rifle, an image of Beethoven inside the numeral "9", various mechanical images including a clockwork mechanism superimposed on a sliced orange, dancers representing the classical themes, and so on. This again was not
A Clockwork Orange (film) Fresh" rating among critics on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 55 reviews with an average rating of 8.4/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Disturbing and thought-provoking, "A Clockwork Orange" is a cold, dystopian nightmare with a very dark sense of humor". The movie was the most popular film of 1972 in France with 7,611,745 admissions. Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" praised the film saying: The following year, after the film won the New York Film Critics Award, he called it "a brilliant and dangerous work, but it is dangerous in a way that brilliant things sometimes are". Despite praise