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3 Women

1977

Robert Altman

Sissy Spacek, Shelley Duvall, Janice Rule, Ruth Nelson ...

7.1

2,041

Drama. Mystery In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse "Thoroughly Modern" Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall), a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of Cosmopolitan and Woman's Day magazines. When Millie accepts Pinky into her home at the Purple Sage singles' ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"'3 Women' is among the least seen and most exquisite of [Altman's] early films and one in which he took a particular pride"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Millie Lammoreaux is the central figure in Robert Altman's funny, moving new film (...) she's one of the most memorable characterizations Mr. Altman has ever given us"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Spacek and Duvall go through their changes so well that it's eerie, and unforgettable. So is the film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"[It] combines comedy, suspense, social comment, and Bergmanesque reverie to weird but often wonderful effect. What really holds the film together is Shelley Duvall's breathtaking performance"	POS
United States	Michael Sragow The New Yorker	"In the Robert Altman canon, no picture is stranger—and more fascinating—than this 1977 phantasmagoria (...) Duvall is brilliant"	POS
United States	Variety	"Absorbing moody and often compelling story about psychological dependence and transference."	POS
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"'3 Women' is a daring piece of cinema that glides along the edge of weirdness and somehow manages not to fall off (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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