3 Women

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Ronald S While this film started strong 💪🏽 with its creepy, unknown plot line and strange, quirky characters……somewhere along the middle between finding out who the characters were and how they all fit into each other’s lives…everything went to the toilet 🚽. At first I was interested in what was going to happen, I was invested in the characters and their stories! I really wanted to see how they could incorporate their real lives with their awkward relationships and their pitiful existences. Then, things got creepy and started pointing towards what was heavily portrayed as a cult or some sort of evil 😈 sex coven in which one of the characters was painting images of all the people involved. This wasn’t a bad thing, except for the fact that the characters were never matched up WITH THE PAINTINGS SO THE VIEWERS KNEW WHO WAS WHO, or explained even with subtle clues! It’s like the writer just opted to bow out of this game he’d begun to play with our heads; showing a broken woman who barely spoke and only drew creatures of iniquity and lust, complete with sexual organs and some sort of religious expression. After that it just got weird and frustrating enough for me to quit watching for about three months until I finally remembered I needed to finish it to write a proper review and STOP 🛑 EVERYONE WHO READ THE MISLEADING GOOD REVIEWS ABOUT THIS FILM LIKE I DID. THIS IS NOT A GOOD FILM. DO NOT WASTE TWO HOURS OF YOUR LIFE YOU CANNOT GET BACK, THE WAY I DID. You have been warned! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/05/24 Full Review Alec B The kind of enigmatic and strangely menacing movie that I wish Altman had done more often. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/24 Full Review Audience Member What seems to be the makings of a fun, tense and catty chick flick lead me on to some disappointment. Although Altman's direction and cast are great, the key tools at his disposable are more or less wasted in this slightly dull and fascinating 70's picture. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/08/24 Full Review Shioka O It's like a nightmarish film, but not scary rather awkward. With starring Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek, the awkwardness is promising. Great direction, but not for everyone. Slow, I actually played x1.5 speed to finish it. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 12/10/22 Full Review dave s 3 Women is probably Robert Altman's least Altmanesque film, more similar in style and theme to Bergman's Persona than anything that the American master ever attempted. In a remote California community, the socially inept Millie (Shelley Duvall) is befriended by the young and naïve Pinky (Sissy Spacek) at a seniors' complex where they both work. From there, their lives become intertwined to the point where they gradually begin to switch personalities. Altman leaves it up to the audience to interpret what exactly is happening – can things be taken literally or is it a surreal fever dream regarding the components of one person's identity? Filled with stark imagery and cryptic symbolism, 3 Women is a movie for those who like to be challenged. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review William L Just goes to show you that the only people you can trust are mysterious, artistic women in big hats. I watched 3 Women as a double-feature with Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker (1953) which formed an interesting comparison as the latter is a traditionally masculine noir from a female filmmaker while the former is a male filmmaker's exploration of femininity. Apparently Altman claimed to have created this entirely from a dream that he had, which makes sense because the film has an ethereal and subjective quality to it. Though a slow burn and initially very cryptic, 3 Women's bizarre ending makes the film oddly come together thematically, as a treatise on dueling identities and personal growth with the characters portrayed by Spacek, Duvall, and Rule representing distinct aspects or stages of one's own existence (which are notably not exclusively linear, as with Duvall's reversion to a more reserved state, and are certainly not static). Each has their own relative strengths and weaknesses based on their personal experience, or lack thereof. Their conflicts are representative of natural uncertainty, reflections of shifting priorities and needs. What each of these personality facets can agree on is that we need to murder the toxic guy ruining each of our lives and make it look like an accident. Decidedly more surreal territory than Altman might typically have worked in, but interesting nonetheless. Or alternatively, this movie is just about the strangest Pokémon evolution ever. (4/5) Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/18/22 Full Review Read all reviews

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