Images (Blu-ray) R
A motion picture of the extra senses
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: March 20, 2018
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Arrow Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Susannah York, Marcel Bozzuffi & Rene Auberjonois | |
Performer: | Hugh Millais & Cathryn Harrison | |
Directed by | Robert Altman | |
Edited by | Graeme Clifford | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Altman | |
Composition by | John Williams | |
Director of Photography: | Vilmos Zsigmond |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1972 -
Best Actress: Susannah York
Entertainment Reviews:
Robert Altman made this interior drama about a woman going through hallucination and nearing madness in Ireland. Delving into effects of permissiveness on a hidebound, repressed nature, it also shows a probing insight into mental disorder.
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Variety
Rating: B --
A challenging film, heavy on symbolism and motifs.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It looks complicated, but it's just confused (1972).
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3.5/4 --
An experiment that embodied the bold risk of an emerging method of cinema, where a garden of new filmmakers was being driven by themes more than characters or story.
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Cinemaphile.org
"Image" is not remotely an example of hack work - it's an example of a conceptual failure.
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New Yorker
[Altman] controls things beautifully, proffering credible biographical reasons for her inner disturbances, and borrowing shock effects from the thriller genre to underline the terrifying nature of her predicament.
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Time Out
This clanging, pretentious, tricked-up exercise, is almost a model of how not to dramatize the plight of a schizoid.
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New York Times
Product Description:
Cathryn (Susannah York) has secluded herself in a remote country home where she hopes to finish writing a children's book. It is in this country house that Cathryn will begin to feel a shift in her life. Reality begins to break down for her as the men in her life become more oppressive. A psychotic break finds Cathryn attempting to kill all these men, although some may already be dead.
This early work from Robert Altman (wrongfully neglected for many years) could be seen as a film typical of its time as it shares a nonlinear kinship with similar disturbing works such as PERSONA, REPULSION, and DON'T LOOK NOW. However, the film is also a masterpiece of atmosphere, conveyed primarily through the score from John Williams and Stomu Yamashta and Vilmos Zsigmond's striking photography. Dense with symbolism and motifs, most notably mirrors, the film is one of Altman's most challenging and offers some of conductor Williams' most subtle work.
This early work from Robert Altman (wrongfully neglected for many years) could be seen as a film typical of its time as it shares a nonlinear kinship with similar disturbing works such as PERSONA, REPULSION, and DON'T LOOK NOW. However, the film is also a masterpiece of atmosphere, conveyed primarily through the score from John Williams and Stomu Yamashta and Vilmos Zsigmond's striking photography. Dense with symbolism and motifs, most notably mirrors, the film is one of Altman's most challenging and offers some of conductor Williams' most subtle work.