3 Women (Criterion)
In a dusty, underpopulated California resort town, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek),a naïve and impressionable Southern waif from Texas, begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There she finds her role model in fellow nurse "Thoroughly Modern" Millie Lammoreaux (Shelly Duvall), a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of Cosmopolitan and Woman's Day magazines. When Millie accepts Pinky into her home at the Purple Sage singles' complex, Pinky's hero-worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated. Featuring brilliant performances from Spacek and Duvall, Robert Alman's dreamlike masterpiece 3 Women careens from the humorous to the chilling to the surreal, resulting in one of the most unusual and compelling films of the 1970s.
In a dusty, underpopulated California resort town, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek),a naïve and impressionable Southern waif from Texas, begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There she finds her role model in fellow nurse "Thoroughly Modern" Millie Lammoreaux (Shelly Duvall), a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of Cosmopolitan and Woman's Day magazines. When Millie accepts Pinky into her home at the Purple Sage singles' complex, Pinky's hero-worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated. Featuring brilliant performances from Spacek and Duvall, Robert Alman's dreamlike masterpiece 3 Women careens from the humorous to the chilling to the surreal, resulting in one of the most unusual and compelling films of the 1970s.