3 Women Details

A gem.

Thrilling, even excruciating performances by both Spacek and Duvall. Not at all a sappy chick-flick, as the title might suggest. But as it's Altman in the diretor's chair, and an early work, it would be a shame not to watch it. It's become permanently fixed on my personal top-ten list.

[Highly rated reviewer]

3 stars

Of the many bizarre examples of Robert Altman self-indulgence, this must surely be the most obscure example. Seemingly inspired by one of the director's dreams, and performed from an improvised script, it seems to be about the transferrence of personality as the child-like Spacek falls under the spell of her self-deluded co-worker Duvall at an old people's convalescent home in the Californian desert. That it veers off into all sorts of weird directions is a given, just don't expect much of it to make any sense. Still, if you want to see a quintessential Altman movie, this is as good an example as any.