Finally on TCM tonight SEP 12, 2009!!!
starts in about seven minutes, have been wanting to see this movie for over 30 years... can't wait!!!
"the best that you can do is fall in love"
That one had been hard to track down. A very good film, I thought. And Paris Blues, which coming up later is also excellent.
shareWhew, on this, my first viewing, I thought this film was awful for the most part, though it improves toward the end. Balsam's revisiting a WWII battlefield is very moving, but of course his wife steps on it. I realized about then that I disliked the woman Woodward plays - so much that it was hard to keep on watching. I realized that I should be marveling at how skillfully Woodward plays this shallow, selfish woman, but somehow it didn't work that way for me; instead my irritation spread to Woodward, too, for choosing to play such a creep. The main posting is dead right about nearly everything. In some ways, it shows how much we have all evolved since 73. The gay son is now not shocking, but commonplace, etc. One thing I couldn't get used to was the complete makeover of Woodward's face. Did she really have all this work done, or was it just (somehow?) temporary - for this film. All in all, what a bummer.
shareI agree with Kenneth Pitchford, I couldn't stand it! It was so "Lifetime Movie of the Week for Women", depressing, melodramatic, almost to the point of unwatchable.
I waited 30 years to see this movie and as God as my witness - I will never see this movie again!
"the best that you can do is fall in love"
The depressing tone is of course, intentional. While not a great movie (characters could've been a little more developed, plot is light with much unexplained, and the editing is particularly sub-par), it captures the ennui of the early '70's quite well. In fact, the early '70's is one of my favorite eras in movies because it reflects despair and ugliness like no other. And anyone who has known someone in depression will see it clearly in Ms. Woodward's difficult but rewarding performance.
shareseen it a buch of times previously tapped it from TCM haven't had a chance to watch it yet have always loved it and felt Joanne was gibbed out of the Golden globe for best actress film drama and the best actress oscar though she managed to win the BAFTA after losing 4 other times those four being The Three Faces Of Eve No Down Payment Rachel Rachel & The Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man In The Moon Marigolds for which she won best actress at cannes
"why are you married to him then if you can't work with him how do you live with him?"