Carnal Knowledge
Carnal Knowledge

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The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, lives that are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperaments, especially in relation to the women in their lives. Their story begins in the late 1940s when they are roommates attending Amherst College together. Both virgins, they discuss the type of woman they would each like to end up with. The more-sensitive Sandy meets Susan at a mixer and believes he'll lose his virginity t... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Carnal Knowledge:

Jack Nicholson
Candice Bergen
Art Garfunkel
Ann-Margret
Rita Moreno
Cynthia O'Neal

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The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, lives that are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperaments, especially in relation to the women in their lives. Their story begins in the late 1940s when they are roommates attending Amherst College together. Both virgins, they discuss the type of woman they would each like to end up with. The more-sensitive Sandy meets Susan at a mixer and believes he'll lose his virginity to her. He goes through the process methodically, considering what she wants, but there's little true passion or romance. The more sexually-aggressive Jonathan, loses his own virginity to "Myrtle," a steady but hidden girlfriend. Based on what each knows of the other's relationship, both men strive for a little more of what the other has. These relationships also set the tone for all the relationships they will have in the future. Through their lives, they always seem not totally satisfied with each relationship, still pining for what the other has. This view might change as they and their friendship hits middle age, when Sandy is with a domineering woman named Cindy, while Jonathan is with model/actress Bobbie, whose life goes spiraling downward because of her relationship to Jonathan and despite her beauty which on the surface offered so much opportunity for her. Jonathan's sexual trajectory, directed through these experiences, ends up in a manner he probably did not foresee.

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Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertCarnal 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.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) - 10/10 by Ken HankeThe perforances are impressive, but the freshness is gone.
The New York Times - 10/10 by Vincent CanbyMore 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.
Time Out - 10/10 by Tom MilneThis was never quite the major assault on sexism and male chauvinism it set itself up to be.
Village Voice - 9/10 by Andrew SarrisThe 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.
Turner Classic Movies Online - 9/10 by Sean Axmaker... an acerbic and, in many ways, dispiriting portrait of masculinity and male sexuality in the post-World War II culture.
ColeSmithey.com - 9/10 by Cole SmitheyAh, the sweet smell of '70s American cinema when anything was possible.
Chicago Reader - 8/10 by Dave KehrThe 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.
Common Sense Media - 8/10 by Barbara ShulgasserFrank '70s coming-of-age tale has lots of sex, profanity.
User Review - 10/10 by Sam MA great and blistering film! Magnificent performances all-around! An especially stunning perf by Ann-Magret. Very controversial -- then and now! -- and devastating. A truly haunting and troubling final image.... One of my all-time faves! :D

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