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Robert Altman: Life
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Directed and co-written by Robert Altman, this romantic comedy stars Paul Dooley as a middle-aged Greek man who lets his domineering father rule his life. Consumed by loneliness, he joins a computer dating service and meets offbeat musician Marta Heflin.
Robert Altman's audacious portrait of the tortured life of painter Vincent Van Gogh, his relationship with his troubled brother, Theo, and his struggle with painter Paul Gauguin. A highly personal biography, with Tim Roth's Van Gogh a different portrayal than Kirk Douglas' in "Lust for Life." With Paul Rhys, Jean-Pierre Cassel. 140 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; featurette.
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Altman was born on February 20, 1925, in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the oldest of three children, and only son of Bernard Clement "B.C." Altman, (an insurance salesman), and his wife Helen (nee Mathews). Altman's family was socially prominent in the Kansas City area, though B.C. Altman had problems with both gambling and alcohol, as would his son later in life. Of German descent, the Altmans were a Roman Catholic family, and Altman received much of his education in Jesuit schools. By the time he reached high school, Altman experienced some difficulties. He was transferred first to public schools, and then to the Wentworth Military Academy, in Lexington, Missouri.
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Hustling the taboos, Altman makes fun of the cops and the puritans, the billionaires and the politicians and ridicules all that Hollywood venerated. “Whoever would drive a car like Steve McQueen in Bullitt, even if it continued Adolf Hitler, should be immediately interned”, says it. His cow-boys walk in snow and mud, its detective wanders as a sleepwalker with a beard hirsute, its accounts scorn the exemplary heroes to be interested in the ways of life.
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Altman movies often lack a conventional plot. As in life, events follow and cause further events that are often linked in ways beyond the obvious. There are no coincidences in Altman movies. They exist in a state of cosmic happenstance.
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