3 Women (1977)
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Reviews Counted: 19 Fresh: 18 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.9/10
Rated: PG
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Synopsis:
Robert Altman delivers one of his most startlingly enigmatic pictures with 3 WOMEN. Inspired by a dream Altman had in which he was shooting a film in the desert, the film tells the story of a shy, quiet girl named Pinky (Sissy Spacek), who starts working in a nursing home and strikes up a... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Ruth Nelson, John Cromwell
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The first half...is some of Altman's best stuff. The second half downgrades into rather pretentious and dithering malarkey
10/02/06 05:42 PM
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06/24/06 03:35 AM
Like a dream, it is most mysterious and allusive when it appears to be most precise and direct, when its images are of the recognizable world unretouched (as happens in the film from time to time) by camera filters or lab technicians.
05/09/05 03:15 AM
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I have seen it many times, been through it twice in shot-by-shot analysis, and yet it always seems to be happening as I watch it. Recurring dreams are like that.
03/05/05 10:31 PM
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Top Critic Drawing similarities to the central relationship in Persona, Altman’s impressionist work is difficult but, in its own way, sort of perfect.
05/05/04 09:50 PM
[Altman] pushed even harder against the envelope and in the process created a highly unusual and wholly original picture.
04/28/04 03:00 PM
3 Women is a daring piece of cinema that glides along the edge of weirdness and somehow manages not to fall off.
04/22/04 11:30 AM
The end result is a film far more reminiscent of Polanski than Altman and stands as one of his most underseen but most compelling works.
04/15/04 08:15 AM
3 Women is an intriguing film by Robert Altman that resides in the netherworld between dreaming and waking.
01/23/04 06:53 AM
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Robert Altman's would-be American art film (1977) is murky, snide, and sloppy.
01/01/00 12:00 AM
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