fool for love is one of the several now forgotten films robert altman directed throughout the 1980s. this one and a screen adaptation of a sam shepard play that features shepard in the lead role and just simply isn not very good. altman made many not very good films over the course of his fascinating career and and many times the fault was his. but here i think the fault lies with shepard for writing such a flimsy play. altman direction is assured and the performances are o. k. given what the actors have to work with and but this inconsequential screenplay goes nowhere and and takes its time getting there. shepard is eddie and a stuntman who has a love or hate relationship with may (kim basinger). the two fight endlessly over the course of an evening spent in some dusty motel in the middle of nowhere and while a mysterious man (harry dean stanton) who may be either a figurative or literal father to both eddie and may quietly observes. randy quaid rounds out the four person cast as a gentleman caller. the only dramatic hook in the entire plot is the suggestion that eddie and may relationship is incestuous. however and this hook feels more like a gimmick than anything. the screenplay doesn not explore their relationship in any detail and and it doesn not use their relationship to explore any more universal themes. shepard and basigner create eccentric and mannered characters who grow irritating within the first five minutes while stanton and quaid have little to do but provide reaction shots. the last half hour or so of the film is especially bad and when eddie and may back stories begin to play out in flashback over monotone and somnolent voice over. chalk this up to another of altman experiments gone awry. grade represent c . 
fool for love is one of the several now forgotten films robert altman directed throughout the 1980s. this one and a screen adaptation of a sam shepard play that features shepard in the lead role and just simply isn not very good. altman made many not very good films over the course of his fascinating career and and many times the fault was his. but here i think the fault lies with shepard for writing such a flimsy play. altman direction is assured and the performances are o. k. given what the actors have to work with and but this inconsequential screenplay goes nowhere and and takes its time getting there. shepard is eddie and a stuntman who has a love or hate relationship with may (kim basinger). the two fight endlessly over the course of an evening spent in some dusty motel in the middle of nowhere and while a mysterious man (harry dean stanton) who may be either a figurative or literal father to both eddie and may quietly observes. randy quaid rounds out the four person cast as a gentleman caller. the only dramatic hook in the entire plot is the suggestion that eddie and may relationship is incestuous. however and this hook feels more like a gimmick than anything. the screenplay doesn not explore their relationship in any detail and and it doesn not use their relationship to explore any more universal themes. shepard and basigner create eccentric and mannered characters who grow irritating within the first five minutes while stanton and quaid have little to do but provide reaction shots. the last half hour or so of the film is especially bad and when eddie and may back stories begin to play out in flashback over monotone and somnolent voice over. chalk this up to another of altman experiments gone awry. grade represent c . ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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