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| 3 Women |
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| Originally released: 1977 |
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One's interest is piqued, rather than threatened, by the mounting
pretensions of this strange, strange movie – one of the strangest ever
to sneak through the back door of a major studio. An impressionable
wallflower (Spacek) latches on to her mirror-gazing flatmate
(Duvall), who's convinced people should notice her but unaware
they're actually laughing. Then, very oddly, the two seem to become
each other, a local artist (Rule) also gets sucked in, and the film
disappears into a bizarre, emotionless void of no explicable meaning
but seriously hypnotic fascination. Based on a dream of Altman's,
presumably after one too many viewings of Bergman's Persona.
Tim Robey
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