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Have any of you all seen the 1970's movie "3 Women"??? What do you think of it? Is it supposed to give you the creeps? :)

Kristin Bell asked in Film 11 months ago | Report

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    I saw it back in the 70s, Kristen. It's a very strange movie. It was my first experience with Shelley Duvall as a lead. She'd been in Thieves Like Us - also an Altman movie, also strange - but didn't figure quite so prominently in that one.

    Cissy idolizes Shelly and becomes Shelley while the administration of the questionable nursing home where they work bicker about things like 5 minutes worth of pay which I thought was hilarious at the time ("Do not punch in until you are dressed for work!"). Tuna melts. Shelley thinking she's some hot shit when its obvious to everyone (except Cissy) that she is not. Janice Rule painting an empty swimming pool with Aztec-looking demons with penises. It's Altman at his strangest.

    You know Shelley won best actress at Cannes and won the LA Film Critics award that year (1977), right?

    I wonder if I'd understand it more now than I did then. I was 25 and lived in West Hollywood when it came out and it was on the Z Channel twice a day, all week shortly after it has its brief cinema run. I got plenty of opportunity to watch it over and over with different people. Everyone was pretty perplexed it. Some were bummed. Some laughed throughout most of the film.

    It is creepy if it's creepy to you.

    Bauhaus answered in Film 11 months ago | Report
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