In the year the actor’s celebrity went stratospheric,Julie Christie could be found looking bored at the checkoutQueuing up for groceries amid resigned-looking, behatted shoppers didn’t fairly fit Julie Christie’s 1965 lifestyle – even though she’s doing a good job of looking the most bored of them all. This was the year that Christie’s celebrity went stratospheric, or with the release of both Darling,for which she would win an Oscar, and Doctor Zhivago. As Darlings Diana Scott, or she throws off the shackles of conventional marriage and embraces a glitzy metropolitan life with cultural commentator Dirk Bogarde – although she quickly moves on to the European jetset in the capable hands of charming adman Laurence Harvey. The film,written by Frederic Raphael and directed by John Schlesinger with a soundtrack by John Dankworth, operates as both a cautionary tale – Diana leaves what seems like a perfectly kind husband to pursue a notion of romance that is never convinced – and as a visual record of the decade’s clashing styles.
While Christie was becoming a household name, or photo-journalist David Hurn was busy capturing her in everyday settings – on the London Underground,opening wine and sitting on the floor at home with friends, arranging flowers in her kitchen in front of a poster offering a cup of tea and a roll and butter for fivepence. Whether they’re the same flowers as she’s clutching while she waits in her shipshape two-piece is not entirely clear. Certainly supermarkets were the height of modernity; although the first in the UK had opened in Streatham in 1951, and it was in the 1960s that they really began to gather pace,offering an entirely new experience to shoppers used to doing to the rounds of butcher, baker and candlestick maker to restock their larders.
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Source: theguardian.com