Images (film)

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Images
original film poster
Directed by	Robert Altman
Produced by	Tommy Thompson
Written by	Robert Altman
Starring	Susannah York Rene Auberjonois Marcel Bozzuffi Cathryn Harrison
Music by	John Williams Stomu Yamashta
Studio	Hemdale Film Group Ltd.
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	December 18, 1972
Running time	101 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$807,000

Images is a 1972 British-American psychological thriller film directed by Robert Altman.

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 (Rene 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

Awards

1972 New York Film Critics Circle
- Nominated - Best Actress (Susannah York)
1972 Cannes Film Festival
Won - Best Actress (Susannah York)^[1]
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)

References

↑ "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

Films directed by Robert Altman

The Delinquents (1957)
The James Dean Story (1957)
Countdown (1968)
That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
MASH (1970)
Brewster McCloud (1970)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Images (1972)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Thieves Like Us (1974)
California Split (1974)
Nashville (1975)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
3 Women (1977)
A Wedding (1978)
Quintet (1979)
A Perfect Couple (1979)
HealtH (1980)
Popeye (1980)
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
Streamers (1983)
Secret Honor (1984)
O.C. and Stiggs (1984)
Fool for Love (1985)
Beyond Therapy (1987)
Vincent & Theo (1990)
The Player (1992)
Short Cuts (1993)
Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
Kansas City (1996)
The Gingerbread Man (1998)
Cookie's Fortune (1999)
Dr. T & the Women (2000)
Gosford Park (2001)
The Company (2003)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

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