1972 · thriller · psychological
Images
Directed by Robert Altman1h 41m1972
While holidaying in Ireland, a pregnant children's author finds her mental state becoming increasingly unstable, resulting in paranoia, hallucinations, and visions of a doppelgänger.
Our read: Images (1972) reads as a heavy, measured, surreal thriller · psychological entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, extreme thriller / psychological, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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