Few great movies evade analysis as skillfully as Robert Altman’s “McCabe and Mrs. Miller.” Its narrative and technique are easy to explain, and even correlate; it’s not that an intellectual case for its effectiveness can’t be mounted.
But doing so doesn’t explain the picture’s particular magic – try to wrap your hands around that, and it’ll disintegrate like the fog in the corner of the frame.
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