Rating: R
Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 09/16/2003
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: MGM
A woman walks a razor's edge between reality and madness in this
impressionistic drama written and directed by
Robert Altman.
Cathryn (
Susannah York) is a woman who begins to suspect that her marriage to
Hugh (
René Auberjonois) is falling apart after receiving a mysterious phone call from a friend who tells her
Hugh has been having an affair.
Cathryn herself has not been happy with
Hugh, and years before she took a lover,
Rene (
Marcel Bozzuffi), though he died some time ago in a plane crash. Thinking they both need to get away,
Hugh takes
Cathryn to their house in the country, where
Hugh indulges in his hobbies, hunting and photography, and
Cathryn works on a book of fantasy tales for children. Before long,
Cathryn begins to see apparitions of the late
Rene around the house, much to her consternation; while confronting her feelings about the late
Rene and the wandering
Hugh,
Marcel (
Hugh Millais), a friend of the couple who makes little secret of his attraction to
Cathryn, arrives for a visit, with his daughter
Susannah (
Cathryn Harrison) in tow. As
Rene's appearances become more vivid and
Cathryn reaches the end of her tether, she begins to drift deeper into a fantasy world, where it's difficult to tell what is real and what is imagined. Beautifully shot on striking locations in Ireland by
Vilmos Zsigmond,
Images earned
Susannah York an award as Best Actress at the
1972 Cannes Film Festival.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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