Directed by Alan Rudolph
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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Released from prison after 12 years for murder, Geraldine Chaplin stalks her ex-husband Anthony Perkins and his new wife. Chaplin starts by following Perkins to work, then throws rocks through his window until finally walking into their house and pulling a knife on his wife, apparently just in jest. Arrested, she opens up to Perkins in jail while he tries but fails to explain the whole thing to his wife. They get drunk and sleep together, but he wakes up to find Chaplin's maintenance man, who is in love with her, asking difficult questions. Although the ending is subject to interpretation, it's that kind of film, some kind of tragedy unfolds between Perkins and the maintenance man. The pairing of Chaplin and Perkins doesn't always work, they have similar personalities, and it almost seems like they are brother and sister rather than lovers. Their characters are neurotic and dysfunctional, eliciting little sympathy other than getting them into psychiatric care. The blues soundtrack by Alberta Hunter is good by itself, but I'm not sure it belonged to this film, scenes that should be sinister instead make you want to tap your feet to the rhythm.
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