“…. Robert Altman rather pointedly let it be known that 3 Women emerged from a dream he had, one so detailed that it eliminated casting problems by featuring Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek….
“…. Then there are the performances, all wonderfully communicative -- especially by Shelley Duvall, who wrote most of her own exquisitely banal dialogue, and Sissy Spacek, who here, as in Carrie, transforms herself from wallflower to Fury with extraordinary conviction. Duvall is at once graceful and gawky, radiant and pathetic. Her Millie Lammoreaux, self-proclaimed queen bee of the spa, is a tall resilient creature who fancies herself life's tour guide, a beacon for those benighted souls who haven't discovered the recipes, household hints, and medical fads she's culled from sundry oracles of consumerism….
“…. Altman senses that women searching for identity have their own way of molding each other. He subscribes to a male fantasy of femininity more common in European literature and film than American: that, whereas men separate themselves through competition and striving, women share a "twin-ness"; an unaccountable current passes between them….”
Stephen Schiff
Boston Phoenix, date ?
[some may be left out-(Get Spacek)]
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