Charlie Bubbles

Charlie Bubbles is a British film of 1967 starring Billie Whitelaw and Albert Finney, and also featuring a young Liza Minnelli. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.

Much of the film depicts the world from the mind of the person, whereby the viewer becomes Charlie so we see much of the film through the eyes of a clever but melancholy and dissatisfied observer of life. The character Charlie Bubbles was almost typecasting for Finney he had risen to filmstardom from a background as a bookies son in the neighbouring, mainly working class Pendleton district of Salford. Charlie Bubbles was not only Albert Finneys debut as a director but was also the last time he has directed a box office film.The film is a slightly surreal offshoot of the kitchen sink drama in which Finney had achieved stardom in Karel Reiszs Saturday Night and Sunday Morning of 1960. Shelagh Delaney, had also achieved fame as the writer of another film in this genre Tony Richardsons 1961 A Taste of Honey. Delaney also wrote Lindsay Andersons 1967 film The White Bus like Charlie Bubbles, set in part in Manchester and Salford, which has a distinctly surreal feel to it at times. ........

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