Harold and Maude: Love it or hate it?

[Jimmy Todd]

I just rewatched Harold and Maude(1971). October is the perfect month for it and the soundtrack. It's one of my favorite movies, but I read some reviews when it first came out. They were not favorable at the time, but apparently time has been kind to the movie.
I love it regardless of aby reviews, but I can understand why it's not to everyone's taste. What are people's opinions? Love it? Despise it? Somewhere in the middle?

 

[Angela Channing]

I think it's a great film: funny, quirky, interesting and moving. Great performances and wonderful use of the music of Cat Stevens. It's really hard to fault this film and it seems to gets better every time I watch it.

 

[Jimmy Todd]

I think it's a great film: funny, quirky, interesting and moving. Great performances and wonderful use of the music of Cat Stevens. It's really hard to fault this film and it seems to gets better every time I watch it.

I agree. I see layers to it every time I watch it.

 

[Richard Channing]

I absolutely love this film. It's got a lot to say and does it with humour and charm. Also Ruth Gordon is a joy to watch in pretty much anything.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

It's archetypal of its era, capturing that bittersweet zeitgeist from the cusp of the '60s and '70s.

How could anybody hate it?, although there's always somebody... It's strange I never actually owned a copy until a few weeks ago.

 

[Richard Channing]

 

[Angela Channing]

Also Ruth Gordon is a joy to watch in pretty much anything.

I agree. I loved her when she played the murderer in Columbo which was the first time I'd ever seen her in anything.

 

[Barbara Fan]

wonderful use of the music of Cat Stevens.

Agree, recently bought the best of CD and so many great songs there

Also Ruth Gordon is a joy to watch in pretty much anything.

Agree, she is an asset to any film and never more so than Rosemary's baby

 

[Toni]

I must watch this one of these days. I´m a big fan of Ms. Castevet, I mean, Gordon, since I saw her in her Oscar-winning role of "Rosemary´s Baby". She and her husband were a great writing couple, and signed the best Tracy-Hepburn movies. She also wrote a play and its movie adaptation about her start as an actress in her humble family, it´s called "The Actress" and her character was played by a young Jean Simmons. A very recommendable B-movie that rings truer than most B-movies.

That orchestra director really was a cynical person for using
THAT tune to welcome Ruth to the stage...

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Bud Cort, dead at 77.