Images

A woman walks a razor's edge between reality and madness in this impressionistic drama written and directed by Robert Altman. Cathryn (Susannah York) is a woman who begins to suspect that her marriage to Hugh (René Auberjonois) is falling apart after receiving a mysterious phone call from a friend ...more

Another exploration of female psychosis akin to his earlier That Cold Day in the Park (1969) and later 3 Women (1977), Robert Altman's Images (1972) is a flawed but hypnotic journey through one woman's descent into homicidal schizophrenia. Rather than observing Susannah York's disturbed wife, Cathryn, from the outside, Altman channels the narrative of the film through her increasingly warped point of view, merging her fantasies with reality as all of the "abusers" in her life become (literally) ...more