3 Women (Altman, 1977): Close-Up Cinema, 8.15pm
This film is showing in tribute to the late Shelley Duvall and is also screened at Close-Up Cinema on August 31st. Full details here.
Time Out review:
One of Robert Altman's most enigmatic and personal films, this study of three
women who exchange personalities (based on a dream of Altman's) combines
comedy, suspense, social comment, and Bergmanesque reverie to weird but
often wonderful effect. What really holds the film together is Shelley Duvall's
breathtaking performance as the vacuous, gossipy therapist who becomes
mentor to the naïve Spacek after the latter moves in as her flatmate.
The third woman is a mute painter (Janice Rule), fashioning her fears and
fantasies into mythic murals of male aggression and female
victimisation. Although any feminist content is undercut by the advent
of insanity halfway through, and the plot construction is not entirely
cohesive, the film succeeds through its perky, acute portrait of
ordinary people living stunted lives against a backdrop of
consumer-orientated glamour fuelled by films and advertising. Often very
funny, always stylish, it's a fascinating film for all its faults.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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