Nashville (1975)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 161m
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, David Arkin, Ned Beatty, Keith Carradine, Henry Gibson, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley
Synopsis:
Various characters converge on the country music festival at Nashville, Tennessee. One of them is shot.
Review:
Fascinating overview of an institution and one which breaks many of the rules of film-making: there is no narrative as such so that the climactic 'event' comes as all the more of a shock; actors all talk at once so as to render the viewer more of an observer obliged to make what he can of things (a technique the director was to make his own); the characters are not that interesting and the whole seems to be a teasing portrait of American society.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 161m
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, David Arkin, Ned Beatty, Keith Carradine, Henry Gibson, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley
Synopsis:
Various characters converge on the country music festival at Nashville, Tennessee. One of them is shot.
Review:
Fascinating overview of an institution and one which breaks many of the rules of film-making: there is no narrative as such so that the climactic 'event' comes as all the more of a shock; actors all talk at once so as to render the viewer more of an observer obliged to make what he can of things (a technique the director was to make his own); the characters are not that interesting and the whole seems to be a teasing portrait of American society.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 161m
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, David Arkin, Ned Beatty, Keith Carradine, Henry Gibson, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley
Synopsis:
Various characters converge on the country music festival at Nashville, Tennessee. One of them is shot.
Review:
Fascinating overview of an institution and one which breaks many of the rules of film-making: there is no narrative as such so that the climactic 'event' comes as all the more of a shock; actors all talk at once so as to render the viewer more of an observer obliged to make what he can of things (a technique the director was to make his own); the characters are not that interesting and the whole seems to be a teasing portrait of American society.