They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Pollack, 1969): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.35pm
This film is part of the Discomfort Movies season and is also screening on July 9th.
Chicago Reader review:
The hopelessness of human life as represented by a marathon dance
contest in the darkest 30s. The material is simple and irresistible, and
Sydney Pollack stages it well (though without transcending the
essential superficiality of his talent). Jane Fonda offers the first
signs that she inherited something more than her father’s jawline, and
Gig Young is reborn as a character actor. With Susannah York, Michael
Sarrazin, Red Buttons, Bonnie Bedelia, and Bruce Dern.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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