Darling

This movie is a real work of the 1960's. It stars Julie Christie, the biggest beauty symbol of the era (and the reason why you know so many thirtysomething women named Lara, she played that character in Dr. Zhivago and the whole world fell in love with her) and it is set in London, fast becomig the hippest city in the world.
This movie was made one year after "A Hard Day's Night" which showed the free, anything can happen spirit of the time. In a way, that was the first 1960's "youth culture" movie and it emphasized all that was positive and hopeful about it.

This movie, though, stresses the fact that the youth culture was as shallow, empty and greedy as the culture it was supposed to replace. Christie plays a working class woman who rises to the top of the modeling industry and finds only emptiness in it. She was able to use all the freedom that the era offered to get what she wanted and got nothing.

The movie also predicts quite accurately how corporations would use the youth culture to sell products. So that all the rebellion and freedom would end up simply as another advertising slogan.

This is quite an interesting movie. And by the way, Julie Christie won the Academy Award for Best Actress for it.