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Remember My Name

Everyone knows a woman is fragile and helpless. Everybody's wrong.

1978 · 1h 35m · R Drama, Thriller
Directed by Alan Rudolph

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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.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

Top critics, in their words

All reviews
70%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Aided by songs performed by the octogenarian blueswoman Alberta Hunter, the filmmaker extracts new cinematic forms from venerable passions.

Richard Brody, New Yorker
Rotten

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.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

Well worth seeing.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten

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.

Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh

'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.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

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