A haunting, poetic anti-Western based on the 1959 novel by Edmund Naughton, Robert Altman's MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER is a deeply moving motion picture concerning love and the pursuit of wealth in early America. John McCabe (Warren Beatty), a determined businessman with a mysterious past, settles in Presbyterian Church, a small Northwestern town, and opens up a saloon and a brothel. Soon after, the English head madame, Constance Miller (Julie Christie) arrives and forms a partnership with McCabe in order to manage the brothel's business affairs. McCabe soon has trouble expressing his true feeli... ngs to Mrs. Miller, with whom he has fallen in love; she, in turn, relies on opium to distract her from her own personal sorrows. After a powerful company arrives and offers to buy out McCabe's property, his stubborn refusal ends up jeopardising his life, resulting in a showdown with three hired killers in the middle of a freak blizzard. Vilmos Zsigmond's faded imagery--purposely manipulated by "flashing" the film stock before shooting--along with production designer Leon Ericksen's authentic town, brings to life a past world that is tainted with an underlying sadness. Beatty, as the lovesick McCabe, and Christie, who was nominated for an Oscar as the hard-nosed Mrs. Miller, deliver earnest performances that add an even greater despondency to the story, which is heightened by Leonard Cohen's melancholy soundtrack.
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
"...The film is a poem -- an elegy for the dead....Few film have such an overwhelming sense of location..."
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Before he fell from favour after making movies such as Popeye and Beyond Therapy, Robert Altman won critical acclaim for Nashville, MASH and this other early effort. Warren Beatty stars as McCabe, a gambler who sets up his girlfriend (Julie Christie) as a whorehouse madam, in a bleak western set against the backdrop of a developing town in the American North West. It's an interesting tale with all the classic elements of the genre, and the affair is given added weight by the solid performances of Beatty and Christie. When you see this, you'll be reminded just how good the Short Cuts director can be when he's on form.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
"...One of Robert Altman's best....The film's real strength is its offbeat characters and their mood-drenched milieu..."
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