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3 Women
Why this pick
Like A Safe Place, this drifts through a fragile woman’s subjective reality, using identity slippage, dream logic, and uncanny images rather than conventional psychological explanation.
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MOVIE1971 1h 34m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Images
Why this pick
A more tense, visually precise companion piece about a woman whose perceptions become unreliable, sustaining the same unsettling overlap of memory, desire, and reality.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A young woman, named Noah, lives alone in a small apartment New York City. She is a mentally disturbed flower child, who retreats into her past, yearning for lost innocence. She recalls her childhood, searching for a "safe place." As a child, whose real birth name was Susan, she met a charismatic magician in Central Park who presented her with magical objects: a levitating silver ball, a star ring, and a Noah's ark. In the present day, Noah is currently and romantically involved with two totally different men named Fred and Mitch. Fred is practical, but dull. Mitch is dynamic and sexy, her ideal fantasy partner. Neither man is able to totally fulfill her needs.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Gwen Welles
Bari
Orson Welles
The Magician
Tuesday Weld
Susan / Noah
Phil Proctor
Fred
Jack Nicholson
Mitch