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- 1973
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 52 m
- 1973
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 52 m
Summary Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam then gets implicated in his wife's murder.
Directed By: Robert Altman
Written By: Leigh Brackett, Raymond Chandler
- 1973
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 52 m
- 1973
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 52 m
The Long Goodbye
7.4
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Summary Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam then gets implicated in his wife's murder.
Directed By: Robert Altman
Written By: Leigh Brackett, Raymond Chandler
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
15 Reviews
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12% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
87
88% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
12% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Impure Chandler it may be, but it's pure Altman and one of his nose-thumbing '70s maverick classics. [25 May 2007, p.C5]
Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye attacks film noir with three of his most cherished tools: Whimsy, spontaneity and narrative perversity.
Despite cries of outrage from hard-line Chandler purists, this is, along with Hawks' The Big Sleep, easily the most intelligent of all screen adaptations of the writer's work.
The film is so inventive in its situations and humor that its shortcomings—the blunt ideas at its core—don't become apparent before several viewings.
Altman gracefully kisses off the private-eye form in soft, mellow color and volatile images; the cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond is responsible for the offhand visual pyrotechnics (the imagery has great vitality). Gould gives a loose and woolly, strikingly original performance.
Sometimes important plot-points unfold through windows, too, and The Long Goodbye as a whole peels back the surfaces of private-eye stories, paying special attention to their macho bluster and abused women.
Robert Altman's film version of Raymond Chandler's novel is an uneven mixture of insider satire on the gumshow film genre, gratuitous brutality, and sledgehammer whimsy.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 30 User Ratings
7.4
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 30 User Ratings
7.4
77% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
17% Mixed
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7% Negative
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Awards
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
