Essential Cinema: On Our Way to Where: Women of ’70s Cinema

PLAY IT AS IT LAYS

Directed by Frank Perry

USA, 1972, 1h 39min, DCP

Essential Cinema: On Our Way to Where: Women of ’70s Cinema

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“About empty lives, acute anguish, Hollywood, and Hell.”
—Pauline Kael

In the blinding glare of Hollywood, Tuesday Weld drifts through a wasteland of fame and emptiness in Frank Perry’s haunting vision of Tinseltown’s broken dreams. A razor-sharp descent into existential despair adapted from Joan Didion’s novel by Didion and husband-collaborator John Gregory Dunne. Co-starring Anthony Perkins. New 4K restoration.

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