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Watch: Images 1972 123movies, Full Movie Online – A schizophrenic housewife kills off each of her terrorizing apparitions, unsure if these demons are merely figments of her imagination or part of reality..
Plot: Cathryn is suffering from schizophrenia and is haunted by hallucinations of apparitions. Her husband has his mind on other things, while her mental state is deteriorating. She is unable to define whether the people around her, like visitors to their house, are real or imaginary.
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	N/A Votes: 7,010
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	N/A Votes: 89 Popularity: 6.066 | TMDB

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The mirror crack’d
Altman’s little-seen psychological thriller, “Images,” takes on the plot of a woman working on a children’s book. One night, she receives a series of mysterious phone calls from a woman who tells her that her husband is cheating on her. After the probability of this is dismissed, she retreats to a country farmhouse with her husband to work, where she is visited by a series of people from her past, as the line between reality and fantasy is continually blurred.

Perhaps less thick with dream fog than “3 Women” but ten times more unnerving, “Images” is a film that truly hasn’t gotten the audience it deserves. It’s two parts art film and two parts psychological horror, while Altman toes the line the entire way through. Taking cues from Ingmar Bergman as well as Polanski, it’s an incredibly bizarre film, especially when taken as a cohesive piece; but the real strength of it lies in the effective cinematography and the successive sequences that could almost stand as monumental short films all on their own. Slick cinematography amplifies the reality (or unreality) of the film, with characters changing bodies between shots, and Cathryn’s husband walking through a swinging door only to return as her dead ex-lover.

It’s precisely this jarring technique that really make this work as a horror film and elicit true moments of shock and fear; we don’t know what to expect from one moment to the next, just as Cathryn doesn’t. It’s a film of doubling, identity, and hallucination— Cathryn sits at the bottom of a waterfall writing, while the camera pans down river to Cathryn sitting on the edge of a bluff, watching herself write. Which Cathryn is the “real” Cathryn? Who is Cathryn? Is her ex- lover dead? Why have her husband’s friend and his doppelgänger daughter come to visit? It’s the these questions that haunt the audience throughout, and remain with you after the shocking final scene.

Many have referred to “Images” as a portrait, even Altman himself, and I can think of no more accurate description. In many ways, it is a series of portraits; shards of a broken mirror that are haphazardly put back together. It’s one of the most haunting and obscure films of the ’70s, brimming with atmosphere, lush cinematography, and truly effective recreations of the schizophrenic mind. Susannah York’s performance as Cathryn is the icing on the cake here, full of vulnerability and incognizant power. Fans of bleak psychological films will be particularly rewarded here, as well as admirers of Bergman and Altman alike. 9/10.

Altman’s lost state of mind. This movie.
Robert Altman doing a psychological horror film. Hmm, okay, seemed interesting. After all, the creator of “MASH” and “The Player” was talented and courageous enough to helm a film of almost every genre available, with limited resources and presenting his own method of cinema: free of rules, realistic, artistic and almost always fascinating despite the lack of audience for the majority of his works. Drama, comedy, sci-fi, musical, thriller, film-noir…you name it: he made it all. Unfortunetaly “Images” isn’t the kind of film where I can say I was enthralled or deeply invested. It was too much on and off, with wonderful sequences put together with prolonged dreary moments that managed to obscure its qualities. The final scene comes and you wondered how simplistic and off-putting most of the film were.

Susannah York plays Cathyrn, a children’s book author in need of peace and quiet to finish her latest work, and those solitude moments will be find at a country home along with her husband (Rene Auberjonois). Well, not really. As the days move, she sees strange visions that disturb her peace and sanity, or the least of that she still has. From strange phone calls telling her husband is having an affair to appearances from a ghostly former lover (the always effective Marcel Bozzuffi); strange noises and occurrences; and the odd behavior of a neighbor/friend of the family (Hugh Millais) who happens to be a former lover of Catheryn and who still feels a deep attraction to her, so peculiar and intrusive to the point of the man seducing her while the clueless husband is on the room next to them. Are those visions and scenarios real or imagined? And what are they’re meaning to the woman? Sane or going crazy? We go to movies like this to find out how it all gets together.

The problem with “Images” is that, after years of watching horror films or even psychological thrillers one gets easily fed up in seeing clichés after clichés. I was remind of the brilliant “Repulsion”. Some parts brought me minor memories from Louis Malle’s surrealistic tale “Black Moon” – it gets even more coincidental that Cathryn Harrison (she plays Millais’ daughter and Catheryn’s only ally) stars on both Malle and Altman films. The visual, the concept, the presentation…it all feels made before – but you can argue that “Black Moon” in that case was the copy film because it got released later, but the order when you watch is how it affects the experience or the enjoyment.

Sure, it’s edgy, filled with suspense and shock, Vilmos Szigmond’s careful cinematography and John Williams’ appropriate (though not memorable) score are first-rate. It thrills. However, I always think that a horror film can only succeed if the drama is good. Otherwise, you’re just wanting for everyone to die or get killed because there’s not enough room to make you invested in their story, in their problems. It must have a great dramatic element, with some life relevance or slightly believable. “Images” almost got there. It’s easy to say that Altman was portraying a bigger-than-life idea of what schizophrenia might be with the duality of real vs. imagination, and the consequences it leads when those clash at each other with just one person having to deal with both sides, not knowing how to act or cope with their current reality. That’s great drama. It only gets wronged and confused due to a mumbled presentation, that doesn’t satisfy neither fully convince, and the whole children book narrated by York (her own real creations) were awfully distracting. The movie feels more concerned in terrifying than giving us a relatable story – and a movie has to be both. It helps a lot. The whole time I kept wondering how low in self-esteem Cathryn must have been to get involved with three misogynist, self-absorbed jerks.

Instead of pouring the odd horrific elements from time to time, Altman should have insisted in developing little by little, just like he does in the menacing phone-call scene (that was genius!) than evolves but the drama keeps on real throughout. It was too bizarre seeing the ghost coming and going, then one face changing to another. If schizophrenia goes like that, and in such a hurry and state, then I guess the movie succeed in its portrayal. Another touch of genius from Altman is with the characters/actors names traded: Susannah plays Cathryn, Cathryn plays Susannah, Rene plays Hugh, Hugh plays Marcel and Marcel plays Rene. I’d like to be on this film set and see how communications worked between them – must have been hilarious specially if there’s method actors involved. The performances? So and so, nothing so brilliant and York only got Best Actress in Cannes due to lack of good competition.

Final verdict: a few years from now and I might rewatch it and find more rewarding qualities. As of now, it goes as one of Altman’s most disappointing efforts but far from worst. 4/10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 44 min (104 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director Robert Altman
Writer Robert Altman, Susannah York
Actors Susannah York, Rene Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi
Country N/A
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 7 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision PSR R-200, Panavision C-Series Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,840 m (1980) (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm