Aided by songs performed by the octogenarian blueswoman Alberta Hunter, the filmmaker extracts new cinematic forms from venerable passions.
Remember My Name
Everyone knows a woman is fragile and helpless. Everybody's wrong.
1978 · 1h 35m · R
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Alan Rudolph
Overview
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
An incomprehensible melange of striking imagery, obscure dialog, a powerful score, and a script that doesn't know how to go from A to B.
Well worth seeing.
Throughout "Remember My Name," the actors work hard to fulfill the surface requirements of scenes that have no dramatic foundation, and the results are often skittish and baffling.
'Remember My Name" is a film that lingers in the mind without exactly staying in mind. The actions in it are decisive but small, like stirrings in a pond.
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