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	*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181007184107/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a7661aa ''Charlie Bubbles''] at the [[British Film Institute]]{{better source needed\|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert – if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. \| date=October 2023}}		*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181007184107/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a7661aa ''Charlie Bubbles''] at the [[British Film Institute]]
	*{{TCMDb title\|70658\|title=Charlie Bubbles}}		*{{TCMDb title\|70658\|title=Charlie Bubbles}}
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	Although the film received critical acclaim, it was not a commercial success in Britain.~~{{Citation needed\|date=May 2024}}~~ Finney blamed this on what he regarded as a mishandled and much-delayed release by [[Rank Film Distributors]].<ref>Murphy p.193</ref>		Although the film received critical acclaim, it was not a commercial success in Britain. Finney blamed this on what he regarded as a mishandled and much-delayed release by [[Rank Film Distributors]].<ref>Murphy p.193</ref>

	''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "Everything is in a continuous present, without perspective; and despite the actual journey, the film is more a journey of inner discovery, the motorway a mysterious tunnel, the locations like vivid dream pictures. In this setting, the film explores a series of relationships – some casual, some transient, one deep. And as in a comparable study of a circle of relationships, ''Le Feu Follet'', each character just eludes the central figure. But ''Charlie Bubbles'' avoids diagnosis; and its integrity is clearest in the treatment of the relationship between Charlie and Lottie. Here everything possible has long been said, yet the brief, flat exchanges emerge charged with recollection and irony ... Despite occasional lapses with enigma and stylisation for its own sake, as in the motorway café sequence, Albert Finney has made a promising debut as a director."<ref>{{Cite journal \|date=1 January 1968 \|title=Charlie Bubbles \|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305829321/1B5DA9EC2F1145E0PQ/1 \|journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] \|volume=35 \|issue=408 \|pages=147 \|via=ProQuest}}</ref>		''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "Everything is in a continuous present, without perspective; and despite the actual journey, the film is more a journey of inner discovery, the motorway a mysterious tunnel, the locations like vivid dream pictures. In this setting, the film explores a series of relationships – some casual, some transient, one deep. And as in a comparable study of a circle of relationships, ''Le Feu Follet'', each character just eludes the central figure. But ''Charlie Bubbles'' avoids diagnosis; and its integrity is clearest in the treatment of the relationship between Charlie and Lottie. Here everything possible has long been said, yet the brief, flat exchanges emerge charged with recollection and irony ... Despite occasional lapses with enigma and stylisation for its own sake, as in the motorway café sequence, Albert Finney has made a promising debut as a director."<ref>{{Cite journal \|date=1 January 1968 \|title=Charlie Bubbles \|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305829321/1B5DA9EC2F1145E0PQ/1 \|journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] \|volume=35 \|issue=408 \|pages=147 \|via=ProQuest}}</ref>

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	*[https://www.reelstreets.com/films/charlie-bubbles/ ''Charlie Bubbles''] then-and-now location photographs at [https://www.reelstreets.com/ ReelStreets]		*[https://www.reelstreets.com/films/charlie-bubbles/ ''Charlie Bubbles''] then-and-now location photographs at [https://www.reelstreets.com/ ReelStreets]

	~~{{Shelagh Delaney}}~~

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{{Short description|1967 British film by Albert Finney}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Charlie Bubbles
| image = "Charlie_Bubbles"_(1967).jpg
| caption = Film Poster
| director = [[Albert Finney]]
| producer = [[Michael Medwin]]
| cinematography = [[Peter Suschitzky]]
| music = Misha Donat
| editing = [[Fergus McDonell]]
| writer = [[Shelagh Delaney]]
| studio = [[Universal Pictures]]<br>Memorial Enterprises
| distributor = [[Rank Film Distributors]]
| starring = Albert Finney<br>[[Billie Whitelaw]]<br>[[Liza Minnelli]]<br>[[Colin Blakely]]
| runtime = 89 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1968|02|11|US|1968|9|19|UK}}
| budget = $1 million<ref name="walker">Alexander Walker, ''Hollywood, England'', Stein and Day, 1974, p. 345</ref> or £318,483<ref>Chapman, L. (2021). "They wanted a bigger, more ambitious film": Film Finances and the American "Runaways" That Ran Away. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 18(2), 176–197 p 189. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0565</ref><ref name="money">Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 361</ref>
}}
'''''Charlie Bubbles''''' is a 1968 British [[Comedy drama|comedy-drama film]] directed by [[Albert Finney]] (in his feature directorial debut) and starring Finney, [[Billie Whitelaw]] and [[Liza Minnelli]].<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=Charlie Bubbles |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150025295 |access-date=13 May 2024 |publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref> The screenplay was by [[Shelagh Delaney]].

A writer returns to his home city after achieving success in London.

==Plot==
Successful writer Charlie Bubbles glides around in a gold [[Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III]] convertible – CB 1E. Reminded by a phone call from his ex-wife Lottie that he has promised to take their son Jack to a football match, Bubbles sets off from London with his secretary Eliza to drive to Manchester. The next day he drives to Lottie's farm, and it becomes obvious that visits are few and far between.

Father and son go to a football match and eat hotdogs from their private box at [[Old Trafford]]. An old school friend turned newspaper reporter enters the box and they chat awkwardly for a few moments. The film then sharply cuts to scenes outside the stadium where Bubbles is desperately looking for Jack, who has gone missing. Bubbles returns in panic to the farm without the boy, driving the Rolls erratically and stopping to vomit on the way, only to find Jack has made his own way home. Next morning Bubbles awakes to find a large red balloon moored near the farm. He climbs into the basket and drifts away.

==Cast==
* [[Albert Finney]] as Charlie Bubbles
* [[Colin Blakely]] as Smokey Pickles
* [[Billie Whitelaw]] as Lottie Bubbles
* [[Liza Minnelli]] as Eliza
* Timothy Garland as Jack Bubbles
* [[Richard Pearson (actor)|Richard Pearson]] as accountant
* [[Nicholas Phipps]] as agent
* [[Peter Sallis]] as solicitor
* [[Charles Lamb (actor)|Charles Lamb]] as Mr. Noseworthy
* [[Margery Mason]] as Mrs. Noseworthy
* [[Diana Coupland]] as Maud
* [[George Innes]] as garage attendant
* [[Arthur Pentelow]] as man with car
* [[Alan Lake]] as airman
* [[Yootha Joyce]] as woman in café
* [[Wendy Padbury]] as woman in café
* [[Susan Engel]] as nanny

==Release==
It was screened at the [[1968 Cannes Film Festival]] on the 11th, just before the festival was called off due to the events of [[May 1968 in France]].

===Critical response===
Although the film received critical acclaim, it was not a commercial success in Britain.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} Finney blamed this on what he regarded as a mishandled and much-delayed release by [[Rank Film Distributors]].<ref>Murphy p.193</ref>

''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "Everything is in a continuous present, without perspective; and despite the actual journey, the film is more a journey of inner discovery, the motorway a mysterious tunnel, the locations like vivid dream pictures. In this setting, the film explores a series of relationships – some casual, some transient, one deep. And as in a comparable study of a circle of relationships, ''Le Feu Follet'', each character just eludes the central figure. But ''Charlie Bubbles'' avoids diagnosis; and its integrity is clearest in the treatment of the relationship between Charlie and Lottie. Here everything possible has long been said, yet the brief, flat exchanges emerge charged with recollection and irony ... Despite occasional lapses with enigma and stylisation for its own sake, as in the motorway café sequence, Albert Finney has made a promising debut as a director."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1968 |title=Charlie Bubbles |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305829321/1B5DA9EC2F1145E0PQ/1 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=35 |issue=408 |pages=147 |via=ProQuest}}</ref>

In ''[[The New York Times]]'' review, critic [[Renata Adler]] praised the film, which she called "a becalmed ''[[Blowup|Blow-Up]]''" and "a completely honest and original thing." She also added: "The ending, a low key [[Absurdist theatre|absurdist]] touch, is as quiet, beautifully made and carefully thought out as the rest."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Adler|first=Renata|date=1968-02-12|title=Screen: The Quietly Desperate World of 'Charlie Bubbles,' Famous Writer|page=47|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

[[Leslie Halliwell]] said: "A little arid and slow in the early stages, and with a rather lame end ... this is nevertheless a fascinating character study with a host of wry comedy touches and nimbly sketched characters; in its unassuming way it indicts many of the symbols people lived by in the sixties."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Halliwell |first=Leslie |title=Halliwell's Film Guide |publisher=Paladin |year=1989 |isbn=0586088946 |edition=7th |location=London |pages=190}}</ref>

''The [[Radio Times]] Guide to Films'' gave the film 3/5 stars, writing: "Rich in resonances of the era."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Radio Times Guide to Films |publisher=[[Immediate Media Company]] |year=2017 |isbn=9780992936440 |edition=18th |location=London |pages=168}}</ref>

[[Alexander Walker (critic)|Alexander Walker]] wrote: "The trouble with Charlie Bubbles is that the character is an extremely passive type. All the other people in the film are seen or felt by him."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Walker |first=Alexander |title=Hollywood England |publisher=[[Orion Books]] |year=1974 |isbn=0752857061 |edition=2nd |pages=352}}</ref>

== Home media ==
The film was released on DVD in September 2008, and on Blu-ray in November 2018.

==Accolades==
Whitelaw won a 1969 [[BAFTA]] for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in ''Charlie Bubbles'' and ''[[Twisted Nerve]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Film {{!}} Supporting Actress in 1969 |url=https://awards.bafta.org/award/1969/film/supporting-actress |access-date=13 May 2024 |publisher=British Academy of Film and Television Arts}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0062792|title=Charlie Bubbles}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181007184107/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a7661aa ''Charlie Bubbles''] at the [[British Film Institute]]{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert – if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}
*{{TCMDb title|70658|title=Charlie Bubbles}}
*{{Letterboxd film|charlie-bubbles}}
*[https://www.reelstreets.com/films/charlie-bubbles/ ''Charlie Bubbles''] then-and-now location photographs at [https://www.reelstreets.com/ ReelStreets]

{{Shelagh Delaney}}

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[[Category:1968 comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:British comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Albert Finney]]
[[Category:Films shot at Pinewood Studios]]
[[Category:Films set in Manchester]]
[[Category:Films set in London]]
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[[Category:1968 directorial debut films]]
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[[Category:1960s British films]]
[[Category:English-language comedy-drama films]]