9º – 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
A naive young woman from a small town in the United States has a chance to build her life in California. Instead, the young woman, shrouded in the reality of her new work, will meet another young woman, this more mature and deviant behavior, developing a strange relationship of friendship with her. Irresistible, ‘3 Women’ is a film that has a sizzling atmosphere that plays an active part in the plot, contrasting well all the inconsistencies found in the two central characters. Another fact that still elevates the level of the film to the nickname of masterpiece is the breaking of that strange drama that we have in its final stretch, becoming a psychological terror that will certainly frighten you more than many films characteristic of the horror genre. Still worthy of attention is the irreplaceable performance of Shelley Duvall in one of the characters and, of course, the great highlight of the whole work, the unique presence of Sissy Spacek interpreting the other central persona of history, reaching the highest performance of his brilliant career and one of the most impressive films in the 1970s. Anyway, director Robert Altman’s masterpiece.
8º – Best of the Best (Robert Radler, 1989)
We will be accompanying the preparation of an American Tae Kwon Do team for a martial arts tournament in South Korea. The film gains its substance by exploring the uncertainties, ghosts of the past and an exaggerated behavioral model of the lives of the team members. ‘Best of the Best’ is a film about the martial arts that walks in a different direction from the majority, bringing a story that prefers to work more with the psyche building of the characters than properly, with an intermittent sense of action. Lost Pearl of the 1980s. Still worth the highlight for the punctual soundtrack and with a super motivational aura that falls perfectly to the film.
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