3 Women (1977)

Shy, reclusive girl Pinky starts work at a solarium and becomes emotionally attached to her fellow worker... (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Robert Altman
Written By: Robert Altman
Starring: Sissy Spacek, John Cromwell, Shelley Duvall, Janice Rule, Ruth Nelson, Robert Fortier, Belita Moreno, Craig Richard Nelson, Sierra Pecheur, Maysie Hoy, Leslie Ann Hudson, Patricia Ann Hudson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Pickpocket | 3 28th |
I was on board with this film for the first 30 minutes or so but it just never amounted to anything and then took a huge nose dive in the second half. Disappointing cause every Altman up to this point has been great. Found the characters to be boring and Altman was trying way too hard to be subtle and "deep." Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall are both horrifying looking as well, found it difficult to masturbate to.
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KMcNeil | 9 94th |
Equally dreamlike and nightmarish, Altman weaves a perplexing story that deals with both social and personal alienation. Never a dull moment - and never a truly stable one either. "3 Women" is as uncomfortable in its own (celluloid) skin as Pinky and Millie are in their (human) skin. Constantly moving about slowly in and out, right and left, the camera of "3 Women" comes across as a sympathetic in one scene and damningly indicting in the next. This is one weird movie. And that's a compliment.
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2 | CatScandal | 60 39th |
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The midway point between two works of genius, and failing to be either. Lacks the poetry of Persona and the emotion of Mulholland Dr., falling in a dark place of "intellectually a good idea, but not amounting to much of a film".
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Nathan S | 4 74th |
A strange and unique film, eschewing traditional plot devices for an ambiguous, amorphous pattern of pure behavior and emotion. Not that there aren't plenty of other dreamlike films out there, and in particular comparisons to Bergman seem relevant, but this is achieved with Altman's original brand of stylized naturalism. The performances are fantastic, with Duvall and Spacek playing out some sort of sinister mother/daughter, quasi-lesbian infatuation.
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KAH | 4 93rd |
An enigmatic and unsettling movie about social alienation. Altman's trademarks really come to their own right in this great film.
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DougReese | 100 96th |
It is very hard to describe a film like "3 Women", because there is so much going on in every frame. The film plays like a dream. It's so dreamlike as it passes on so many dreamy imagery and situations, before that "shift" comes halfway in, and the film becomes a virtual nightmare.
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DavidBlast | 70 65th |
Yes, I was hung over. Yes, I may have slept through some of it. Yes, if you look at my track record, modernist, complicated art stuff like this is supposed to be my jive. I found the characters to be frustrating and unapproachable, and while this is obviously also by design, I'd recommend it, but will never want to watch it again.
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??? | 96 99th |
The Chabad thriftstore edition of Mullholand Drive.
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loc42 | 100 99th |
I wish I had dreams like that.
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karamazov. | 62 83rd |
One of the fucking weirdest movies I've seen. Completely impenetrable until taken as a hypnagogic experience-- how all good film should be approached anyway, I would think.
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Moribunny | 85 95th |
What Bergman's Persona might have been, if it was more refined.
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Dorkovsky | 10 99th |
Wonderfully enigmatic and layered making it highly rewatchable. The ending is particularly great.
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amerigo | 79 60th |
This is a prime example of a talented filmmaker over-reaching. Instead of concentrating on a straightforward yet deeply compelling question of whether two people can naturally and seamlessly exchange identities, Altman figures it's not enough when there are Fellinis and Kubricks and Polanskis and Tarkovskys. He dials up the complexity and muddles what would otherwise be a highly effective vector for delivering a profoundly unsettling message: you're not really you. Instead we have 3 Women.
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1 | Ella May | 60 19th |
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Some really intriguing bits and great atmosphere...went nowhere and ended without answering its own questions.
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deaddilly | 80 72nd |
A subconscious exploration of the mysteries of maturation and growth within femininity. A lucid momentum propels the narrative forward as explosive moments of change erupt and constantly turn the film on its head. The violent swings are disorienting, but truly illustrate the perversion of innocence and the loss of ambition in a way that no script could. Fantastic, mysterious work.
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svenerik | 90 89th |
I probably think about this puzzle of a film more than any other that I've seen in the past few years. Spacek, Duvall & Rule are all captivating and deeply haunting; it's like a disturbing half-remembered dream; difficult to believe that Altman (or anyone) could come up with this strange a story.
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billkerwin | 91 86th |
A strange trio of women in one of Altman's strangest and best films.
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lisa- | 6 83rd |
kind of fascinating, with the duality of personality before/after the suicide attempt also represented by the weird colour shifts. not exactly sure what it's supposed to mean beyond that (though even altman doesn't seem to have much of a theory), but it was rather riveting viewing towards the end, even if it was a bit impenetrable.
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Average Percentile 72.4% from 1012 Ratings | ![]() |