Her boyfriend is taking a long time to get to her, and she finds herself getting more impatient. The film focuses on the couples fluctuating past and present relationships, and the dark secrets hidden within. He has made a melodrama, almost a soap opera, in which the characters achieve a kind of nobility. A complex story, it seems to get better the more often you watch it. Fool for love robert altman directs a fine cast with all the authority and finesse a good play deserves, so its too bad the play fooled them all. She is also the writer and art director of fool for love. As a woman awaits her boyfriend at a seedy motel, her old flame resurfaces, as does a threat that could destroy their last chance for happiness. His presence adds to the heightened dreamlike quality of the play. Fool for love the shepard touchstones are in place, though only intermittently the play itself, in the new donmar warehouse production of fool for love, in which some able actors make a lot of. Several years ago a company called genomex carried out a series of illegal and immoral experiments on human subjects, forever altering the dna of any children they might have, to make them mutations from the norm. At the center of sam shepards fool for love are two people whose hurts are so deep, whose angers are so real, that they can barely talk.
As a woman awaits her boyfriend at a seedy motel, her old flame resurfaces. Watch fool for love 1985 full movie free online streaming tubi. Sam shepards play was a short, strindbergian chamber piece, in which a semiincestuous affair between halfbrother and sister was enacted largely by. An autobiographical video record of the love life of the film editor robert gibson. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading fool for love gansett island series book 2. With fool for love, he has succeeded on two levels that seem opposed to each other. Regarder le film fool for love 1985 en streaming vf. Fool for love is a tributary piece to the pulitzer winner sam shepherd, inspired by his play of the same name. Tony award winner nina arianda and sam rockwell are joined by emmy award winner tom pelphrey by the water at mtc, end of the rainbow and tony award nominee gordon joseph weiss fool for love at. One of robert altmans many playto film adaptations in the 1980s, fool for love largely feels like the director was on autopilot. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of fool for love.
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a rundown american motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away. Video fool for love 1996 1h 23min 2 may 1996 australia an autobiographical video record of the love life of the film editor robert gibson. Video fool for love 1996 directed by robert gibson. Still, there are plenty of less interesting theater to film. The film s source fool for love was set in one room in a desert motel but this filmed movie adaptation opens up this setting so as to involve the whole motel complex.
Obviously, this is the intent, but it really hurts since it is an altman film. Synopsis though there are several actors in fool for love, two share the majority of screen time. May is waiting for her boyfriend in a rundown american motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. In the best tradition of film as confessional, video fool for love is a remarkable film making exercise and a powerful film watching experience a funny, raw, tragic tale of romance, seduction, anger and hope. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
Staring kenna james, ariana marie, jillian janson and sara luvv. Music from the motion picture soundtrack on discogs. Both 1972s images and 1977s 3 women break from his shaggy genre revisions and american tableaux to indulge a little you know what would be heavy. Surreal, funny, offering a contrary point of view, the old man only exists in may and eddies minds even though we see and hear him onstage. Kim basinger, sam shepard, harry dean stanton, randy quaid a woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her back to the life she is trying to leave behind. Youll never see better acting from kim basinger than in this film. Fool for love marks ritabharis second short film, the previous one titled naked. Packaging should be the same as what is found in a retail store, unless the item is handmade or was packaged by the manufacturer in. Fool for love, starring nina arianda and sam rockwell. You came in thinking you are watching an anurag kashyap short film, whereas you are watching a short film starring anurag kashyap. In fool for love, we see various forms of love from sibling, to parental, to lover, to oneself.
To see playwright sam shepard in the 1985 fool for love film trailer. Fool for love 1985 is one of five independently produced play adaptations robert altman directed in the. One image that stands out in my mind, is of eddie hauling may over his shoulder kicking and. Fool for love is a drama film that was released in 1985. While his girlfriend april is in england, robert starts living with gianna, and eventually asks gianna to marry him. Film fool for love 1985 merupakan salah satu film bergenre drama, romance yang di sutradarai oleh sutradara kondang papan atas robert altman, dan tidak ketinggalan juga, film ini dijamin bertabur deretan bintang film papan atas akan memukau anda saat nonton film fool for love 1985. Part of her impact probably is because the director is altman. The late sam shepard stars in this moving adaptation of his own play as a cowboy visiting exlover and current halfsister kim basinger at a mojave desert motel. The lowestpriced brandnew, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging where packaging is applicable. Fool for love gansett island series book 2 kindle edition by force, marie. The film centers on a woman who is staying in a rundown motel while waiting for her boyfriend to show up. Well before he directed the 1985 movie adaptation of sam shepards play fool for love, robert altman had already made trips into mythopoeic, shepardesque psychodrama. With a small cast and limited locals due to its basing on a play, the film feels incredibly claustrophobic. There is stuff in it like any other drama like ex girlfriend, a mom who doesnt want the love to continue, and humor.
Whats astonishing is that fool for love is essentially a male drama, told from a male point of view, and yet basinger is able to suggest so much with her performance that she steals the center of the stage right away from the man who wrote her lines and is playing opposite her. Shepard speaks check out an excerpt from a pbs great performances special on shepard, in which he talks about. That does not stop them from talking, on and on into the hurtful night, and eventually we can put together their sto ries, using what they have said, and especially what they have not said. Randy quaid, harry dean stanton, kim basinger, sam shepard. The old man character, played by harry dean stanton in this film, has no personal name, and functions as. In this robert altman film, eddie sam shepard and may kim basinger are on againoffagain lovers who havent seen each other in a while. Fool for rotten tomatoes if you want the 411 before you watch the film version, be sure to check out the rotten tomatoes site on the film. Sam shepards awardwinning play, full of mystery, humor and beauty, becomes a perfect screen adaptation. When he makes his first appearance in the short film fool for love, he is wearing that iknowwhatyouarethinking smile. We mainly watch them fight, make up, fight, make up and so on. Fool for love is a 1985 american drama film directed by robert altman. Friedman, starring sam rockwell, nina arianda, and gordon joseph weiss.
The film stars sam shepard, who also wrote both the original play and the adaptations. In this robert altman film, eddie sam shepard and may kim basinger are onagainoffagain lovers who havent seen each other in a while. The film stars sam shepard, who also wrote both the original play and the adaptations screenplay, alongside kim basinger, harry dean stanton, randy quaid and martha crawford. Read the video fool for love movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on. Not only does it have short 20 something minute episodes that are addicting, the cast grows into you too. Fool for love is a great play, and the performances from the cast are solidespecially stantons and shepardsbut as a film the whole thing. At the center of sam shepards fool for love are two people whose hurts are so deep, whose angers are so real, that they can barely talk about what they really feel. Fool for love examines the turbulent romance between a wandering cowboy, sam shepard, and his one true love, kim basinger, who works and lives in a seedy motel in the new mexico desert. One of robert altmans many playtofilm adaptations in the 1980s, fool for love largely feels like the director was on autopilot. May is waiting for her boyfriend in a rundown american motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life.
In a shabby, neonlit motel somewhere in the mojave desert, eddie shepard and may basingerlovers with a long, tangled historyexorcise years. On the fringe apparently the play was edgy enough to make the 2014 hollywood fringe festivalcheck out the blurb. Hilton als on a revival of sam shepards fool for love at the samuel j. Fool for love film wikimili, the free encyclopedia. With sam shepard, kim basinger, harry dean stanton, randy quaid. He comes off more as a lovestruck kid than obsessed man.
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