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Harold and Maude is a 1971 American romantic black comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. It incorporates elements of dark humour and existentialist drama. The plot follows the exploits of Harold Chasen, a young man who is obsessed with death, and who rejects the life his detached mother prescribes for him. Harold develops a friendship, and eventual romantic relationship, with…
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Hal Ashby, a luminary of the New Hollywood movement, carved his name into cinema history with films that melded sharp social critique with offbeat humour. Though his later works—*Shampoo* (1975) and *Being There* (1979)—garnered immediate acclaim, it was his 1971 sophomore effort, *Harold and Maude*, that cemented his reputation as a director unafraid to court controversy. Initially dismissed by critics and audience…More
