3 Women (1977)
Directed by Robert Altman
Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.
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The long-neglected middle child of art cinema’s triptych of psychodramas surrounding misplaced/mistaken/stolen female identities—between Ingmar Bergman’s refined and reserved Persona and David Lynch’s sexually uninhibited scene-stealer Mulholland Drive —is Robert Altman’s obtuse and brilliant 3 Women.
3 Women looks back to Ingmar Bergmans Persona (1966) and anticipates David Lynch s Mulholland Drive (2001); all three movies revolve around a central female dyad, the dynamics of which are protean and radically altered by a destabilizing love.
It feels a bit like Bergmans Persona (1966) and a bit like Lynchs Mulholland Dr. (2001).
The movie is the sixth of seven Duvall made with Altman, who cast her in her screen debut, 1970s Brewster McCloud.
But, for all its lumpy qualities (which shouldn’t be a hurdle for those who’ve fallen in love with Altman’s equally worthy bastard children The Long Goodbye and Brewster McCloud, among others), 3 Women is a daring piece of cinema that glides along the edge of weirdness and somehow manages not to fall off.
This period yielded such great films as McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Long Goodbye and Nashville, but none of these is as beautifully poetic and dreamily elusive as 3 Women (1977), now available on a spectacular Criterion Collection DVD and in 1-to-2.35…
But, for all its lumpy qualities (which shouldn’t be a hurdle for those who’ve fallen in love with Altman’s equally worthy bastard children The Long Goodbye and Brewster McCloud, among others), 3 Women is a daring piece of cinema that glides along the edge of weirdness and somehow manages not to fall off.