This beautifully realized film retains the essential qualities of short fiction: precision, compactness, a focus on epiphanic moments.
Overview
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
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These are complex characters.
It accumulates small details that gradually create a feeling of narrative intimacy.
Three exquisite boutique films whose impact is much larger than many movies five times their size.
If the movie is finally stuck halfway been cinema and prose, Miller proves that it's not an unfertile place to linger.
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