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Fool for Love (1985)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:8
Rotten:3
Average Rating:5.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Robert Altman's adaptation of Sam Shepard's play takes the characters off the stage and places them deep in a barren New Mexico locale. Eddie (Sam Shepard) is a mysterious cowboy drifter who... Robert Altman's adaptation of Sam Shepard's play takes the characters off the stage and places them deep in a barren New Mexico locale. Eddie (Sam Shepard) is a mysterious cowboy drifter who returns to the seedy El Royale Motel with the hope of resuming his romance with May (Kim Basinger), a blonde bombshell who works as a waitress in the bar. Over the course of one night, the lovers argue and talk endlessly, gradually revealing the tragic secret behind their tumultuous affair. Adding conflict to the proceedings is Martin (Randy Quaid), a man who is out to win May's heart. Altman captures the confined atmosphere of Shepard's play, keeping the locations to a minimum. Shot in the middle of the Santa Fe desert, the film plays itself out like a disturbing, nostalgic dream. As the bickering couple, Shepard and Basinger perform with a fiery passion that makes the silent desert all the more unsettling. The songs, by Shepard's real-life sister, Sandy Rogers, ring throughout the night, augmenting the film's dark tone. [More]
Starring: Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Randy Quaid, Harry Dean Stanton
Starring: Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Randy Quaid, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: Robert Altman
Director: Robert Altman
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Reviews for Fool for Love
Fool For Love is too removed from the real world to connect as more than a spooky, extradimensional love story.
Though most of the tension of the theatrical presentation is gone, the movie preserves a lot of the play's lunatic humor. It also understands the Shepard concern for characters who have somehow found themselves cut loose from any social roots.
Altman's staging only underlines the pretentious vagaries built into Shepard's concept.
With Fool for Love, he has succeeded on two levels that seem opposed to each other. He has made a melodrama, almost a soap opera, in which the characters achieve a kind of nobility.
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