3 Women emerged from instinctive territory — not from a script or studio pitch, but from a dream Altman had.
Made in 1977, the film feels like it arrived sideways into the world: part mystery, part meditation, part mirage. Set in a parched and drifting California, it floats between realism and something much less nameable. Altman himself referred to it as his “Ingmar Bergman film.” It might just as easily be called his most haunting.
The film resists summary, it’s a film of moods and mirrorings, steeped in post-60s drift and 70s psychological interiority — yet completely unplaceable, the kind of film that doesn’t announce itself but waits for you to find it.
This film is chosen bij Elisabeth
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