Harold & Maude

DCP projection “Like Bob Rafelson, a director similarly obsessed with the trials and tribulations of the children of the rich, Ashby forever treads the thin line between whimsy and absurdity and ‘tough’ sentimentality and black comedy. Harold and Maude is the story of a rich teenager (Cort) obsessed with death – his favourite pastime is trying out different mock suicides – who is finally liberated by his (intimate) friendship with Ruth Gordon, an 80-year-old funeral freak.” – Time Out (London)