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Images (1972)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
3/20
3/20:
Robert Altman is the kind of director who can do ten stinkers in a row and then finally presents
a masterpiece that will bowl me over.
I was really hoping for the latter through Images, but damn...what a torture it's been. The
see-it-for-one-second-then-it's-not-there-anymore genre has been done to death for decades. I mean, what new stuff
am I supposed to discover in Images?
Although the dizzy editing and the landscape photography of Ireland are excellent, not much happens. The
dialogue is awful which somewhat reminds me of Roman Polanski's scripts for
Cul-de-Sac and Repulsion: just a lot of
bullshit to pass the time. The excerpts from Susannah York's children's book In Search of Unicorns are
wretched, too.
I can't rip the acting apart because it's nobody's fault for having to work with a terrible screenplay. However,
it's cute that all five principal thespians take each other's first name for their characters. Susannah York is
okay and has an easy face to look at, but I don't think her heart was in it during the entire time after
expressing reluctance to take on the role.
All in all, it's tough to endure a bad Robert Altman picture, but I'm still a big fan of his overall body of work.