..from that era. i've seen a lot of 60s era films where the editing film style is very druggy/arty/whatever looking that look really stupid. maybe it's cause this film has a stronger plot/narrative or something, i dunno but it's style hasn't dated the film as badly as it could have. it's a nice time capsule of the 60s while still aging well as a film, which a nice achievement.
shareI think the editing of this film was way ahead of its time. It's very much in the style of "nonlinear" filmmakers like Robert Altman in the '70s and beyond and Alejandro González Iñárritu today. The music and fashions may be different today (not necessarily better, in my opinion), but the "feel" of this film is contemporary.
IMHO the elegant flashbacks and jagged continuity derived from Resnais are more distracting than meaningful, and fragmented time and memory were better conveyed and more to the point in John Boorman's Point Blank(67) which like Petulia uses Alcatraz as a location. Petulia's cinemtographer, Nicholas Roeg, used subliminal imagery in two films he directed:Performance(70)and Walkabout(71).
shareRoeg also used "elegant flashbacks and jagged continuity" in Bad Timing, which features Art Garfunkle and a very cool looking long haired Harvey Keitel.
Oh and this film obviously inspired Steven Soderbergh's style. Just look at The Limey.
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