via Youtube (but the audio is hard to hear):
Criterion calls it "unsettling" and describes it this way:
Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies.The New Yorker calls it a masterpiece. Roger Ebert has a review. Rotten Tomatoes has a xritics consensus score of 87%.
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...I was unaware of the "splash."
ReplyDeleteThe whole "the environment is poisoning us" idea is what I remember.
DeleteScary is good, I will watch it later! Have a great weekend, Valerie
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy it.
DeleteI don't remember this one.
ReplyDeleteIts splash may've been smaller than I remember it being.
DeleteI remember seeing this on TV. It ended weird, at least I thought it did.
ReplyDeleteYes, the whole film was a bit weird.
DeleteI remember when that came out. Moore is usually so very good.
ReplyDeleteShe's good in this, too. A powerful performance, I think.
DeleteInteresting and weird 😊. Happy wishes! Hugs Jo x
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of it as a 90s "thing".
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