McCabe and Mrs Miller

Robert Altman USA 1971 120 minutes (15)

If anything, Robert Altman’s self-styled “anti-western” looks even richer, stranger and more daring than it did when it first appeared back in 1971. A wry, muted tragedy, this casts Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as the romantic fools (he a gambler, she a brothel madam) skittering on the surface of the developing frontier; their fumbled interactions played out in murmured dialogue and framed by Vilmos Zsigmond’s delicate eggshell photography.

"A minor-key masterpiece.” Xan Brooks The Guardian.

Links (warning: some of these links discuss the plot of the film in full)

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/mccabe_and_mrs_miller/#

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991114/REVIEWS08/911140301/1023

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=36019