Images (film)
| Images | |
|---|---|
 original film poster | |
| Directed by | Robert Altman |
| Produced by | Tommy Thompson |
| Written by |
Robert Altman Susannah York (book, In Search of Unicorns) |
| Starring |
Susannah York René Auberjonois Marcel Bozzuffi Cathryn Harrison |
| Music by |
John Williams Stomu Yamashta |
| Cinematography | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| Edited by | Graeme Clifford |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country |
United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $807,000 |
Images is a 1972 British-American psychological thriller film directed by Robert Altman and starring Susannah York. The picture follows an unstable children's author who finds herself engulfed in apparitions and hallucinations while staying at her remote vacation home.
Plot
Wealthy housewife and children's author Cathryn (Susannah York) receives a series of disturbing and eerie phone calls in her home in London one dreary night. The female voice on the other end suggests mockingly to her that her husband Hugh (René Auberjonois) is having an affair.
Cathryn's husband comes home, finding her in complete disarray. Hugh attempts to comfort her, but then he is gone, and she sees a different man who is behaving as if he were her husband. She screams in horror and backs away, only to see her vision of the figure revert to her husband.
Hugh attributes her outburst to stress and her budding pregnancy. He decides to take a vacation to the countryside at an isolated cottage. But as she dwells there, Cathryn delves into darker delusions as the stranger returns, and she finds it difficult to determine what is reality and what is in her mind.
Cast
- Susannah York as Cathryn
- Rene Auberjonois as Hugh
- Marcel Bozzuffi as Rene
- Hugh Millais as Marcel
- Cathryn Harrison as Susannah
Reception
Roger Ebert gave Images three stars out of four, recommending it to fans of Altman's filmography but also writing that it "inspires admiration rather than involvement. It’s a technical success but not quite an emotional one."[1]
Although having received many award nominations, Images is now one of Altman's lesser-known works.
Awards
- 1972 New York Film Critics Circle
- Nominated - Best Actress (Susannah York)
- 1972 Cannes Film Festival
- Won - Best Actress (Susannah York)[2]
- Nominated - Golden Palm (Robert Altman)
- 44th Academy Awards
- Nominated - Best Music, Original Dramatic Score (John Williams)
- 26th British Academy Film Awards
- Nominated - Best Cinematography (Vilmos Zsigmond)
- 30th Golden Globe Awards
- Nominated - Best English-Language Foreign Film
- Writers Guild of America Awards 1972
- Nominated - Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen (Robert Altman)
See also
References
- ↑ Ebert, Roger (December 10, 1974). "Images (1974)". Retrieved September 19, 2015.
- ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Images". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
External links
- Images at the Internet Movie Database
- Images at Rotten Tomatoes
- Chicago Sun Times Review of "Images" by Roger Ebert
- New York Times Review of "Images" by Howard Thompson