Synopsis
“This unorthodox dream western by
Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars
Warren Beatty and
Julie Christie as two newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans. With its fascinating flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great
Vilmos Zsigmond, innovative overlapping dialogue, and haunting use of
Leonard Cohen songs,
McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamourized and revitalized the most American of genres.” – Janus Films