3 Women (1977)
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Ruth Nelson, John Cromwell
DVD Info
Release:
Apr 20, 2004
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Dual Layer
- Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
- Mono - English
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - 1. Robert Altman - Director
- Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Text/Image Galleries:
- Stills Gallery of Rare Production and Publicity Photos
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Reviews
The first half...is some of Altman's best stuff. The second half downgrades into rather pretentious and dithering malarkey
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.
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.
Drawing similarities to the central relationship in Persona, Altman’s impressionist work is difficult but, in its own way, sort of perfect.
[Altman] pushed even harder against the envelope and in the process created a highly unusual and wholly original picture.
3 Women is a daring piece of cinema that glides along the edge of weirdness and somehow manages not to fall off.
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.
3 Women is an intriguing film by Robert Altman that resides in the netherworld between dreaming and waking.
Robert Altman's would-be American art film (1977) is murky, snide, and sloppy.
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