Carnal Knowledge

With an artful edit from director Mike Nichols, Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and Sandy (Art Garfunkel) meet at Central Park about ten years after their college days and resume conversation about females in Carnal Knowledge, 1971, from Jules Feiffer's screenplay.

The first appearance of Bobbie (Ann-Margret) features her on a date with accountant Jonathan (Jack Nicholson), first in a dimly-lit restaurant, with a deliberate artificial technique by director Mike Nichols and cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, then in a Manhattan taxi, in Carnal Knowledge, 1971.

Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) makes a play for his best friend's girl Susan (Candice Bergen) while on a contrived visit to Smith College in director Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge, 1971.

In the shower at the dorm, Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) presses Sandy (Art Garfunkel) to get more aggressive with his girlfriend, with plenty cursing, in Carnal Knowledge, 1971, from Jules Feiffer's screenplay.

Saved for the ending, Rita Moreno as, we presume, sex-worker Louise receives divorced accountant Jonathan (Jack Nicholson), in what looks like contemporary New York, ending screenwriter Jules Pfeiffer’s story that began in college back in the 1940’s, in director Mike Nichols’ Carnal Knowledge, 1971.

After a dialogue prologue under the credits, the car confirms the late 1940's period suggested by the music, as two Amherst men (Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel as Jonathan and Sandy) assess then approach Smith College co-ed Susan (Candice Bergen), in director Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge, 1971.