Nashville
1975's NASHVILLE most certainly is director Robert Altman's magnum opus, his masterwork. A sprawling mosaic whose scope is wide but never at the expense of involving, small scale intimacy. There are a few dozen characters juggled in this oversized ensemble. Everyone gets at least one key moment, usually more. It's a film that presumably unfolds during the Bicentennial. The American landscape was by then well entrenched in the Me Decade, reeling from Vietnam and Nixon's resignation. And the Kennedy assassinations. One of said characters can't stop talking about that. These are broken souls. No matter if they are lowly assistants, groupies, advance men, managers, or big country music stars. They all share various degrees of emptiness and dissatisfaction. Altman's fly-on-the-wall, utterly voyeuristic style is often uncomfortable. At times it feels as if we are God Himself, omniscient. The director's patente...
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