Pretty impressive to see a smart film like this come out of the 1970s. I suppose you could call it feminist, but it's really a very human story about friendship and independence.
It's too rare for films to portray platonic relationships -- especially between women -- as realistic and complicated. There's a lot of nuance in the writing. I'm surprised this film isn't better known or embraced as an important work by a woman writer-director.
I was watching tv and fell asleep then woke up halfway through this movie. What I saw of it makes me want to see it all. Now I have to see the whole thing and don't know if I ever will. I had never even heard of it. Dang it.
shareI think it's available on DVD. I saw it amazon and remember it being affordable...
shareCriterion is releasing it this November.
shareI got a kick out of seeing Christopher Guest in this movie!
shareAgreed! Good!
Crazy how much smoking they would show back in those days. Today it would mean the character has a death wish.
Melanie Mayron somehow only got cuter ten years later in thirtysomething. But probably she was made deliberately frumpy in this.
Funny how she plays a photographer in both this and thirtysomething. Maybe something she does in real life?
Has the gratuitous nudity that has now become a signature of the 70s.
The character contemplates an affair with the Eli Wallach character. Wow! She was born in 1952, he in 1915.