Bedtime with Rosie is a 1975 British comedy-drama film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Una Stubbs, Ivor Burgoyne and Diana Dors.[1] The onscreen title is simply Rosie, and the title song was performed by singer Danny Street.

Bedtime with Rosie
Still from the film
Directed byWolf Rilla
Written byIvor Burgoyne
Produced byMichael Fenton
Wolf Rilla
StarringUna Stubbs
Diana Dors
Ivor Burgoyne
CinematographyMark McDonald
Edited byBernard Gribble
Music byRoger Webb
Release date
  • February 1975 (1975-02)
Running time
76 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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Rosie, a highly imaginative and pregnant single woman on her way from Liverpool to Holland, stays overnight with her Aunt Annie at her dingy London home. While there she is forced to share a bed with her aunt's lodger Harry, a reclusive and disillusioned bachelor, who initially disapproves of her lifestyle. Eventually Rosie and Harry strike up a relationship after she admits to being molested as a child and that her pregnancy is the result of rape by her boyfriend.

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Critical reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote:

Although not the skin-flick that its title advertises, nor the Rohmer-esque tale that its story suggests, Bedtime with Rosie does continually titillate its audience with the possibility that something either lewd or meaningful is about to occur. But nothing, on either count, ever really happens. The claustrophobia of the one-room set quickly suffocates any ambiguity about the characters while Rilla's static direction keeps the story's flirtation with deceptive appearance and sordid reality firmly anchored in the latter. Even though Harry turns out not to be the inexperienced fellow he claims to be, the script never really investigates the possible ethics of the circumstance (will and/or should Harry defend his "virginity" and principles), but instead emphasises the vulgar implications stemming from it. Outside of the amateur psychology that informs the dream sequences, the film is never funny, and for all of love's victories it is never touching.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Bedtime with Rosie". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Bedtime with Rosie". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 42 (492): 52. 1 January 1975 – via ProQuest.
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