even shoulder to shoulder with the rest of Altman's filmography, California Split is astonishingly naturalistic; plot is generally of little use to it, and it offers instead a character study of the Gambler, as portrayed by George Seagal and Elliot Gould as two sides of the same coin, banding together in an effort to appease their sickness. Gould is magnetic as always, and the more compelling of the two, as the thrill of the wager seems to have become a Great Truth in the manner he lives his life, and in collaboration with Seagal he becomes the ultimate enabler. but their connection, however ugly in its realities, yields a certain passion between the two men, and so Split is also a softly touching examination of an adoring (but nonetheless star-crossed) platonic relationship.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
robert altman's CALIFORNIA SPLIT (1974)
even shoulder to shoulder with the rest of Altman's filmography, California Split is astonishingly naturalistic; plot is generally of little use to it, and it offers instead a character study of the Gambler, as portrayed by George Seagal and Elliot Gould as two sides of the same coin, banding together in an effort to appease their sickness. Gould is magnetic as always, and the more compelling of the two, as the thrill of the wager seems to have become a Great Truth in the manner he lives his life, and in collaboration with Seagal he becomes the ultimate enabler. but their connection, however ugly in its realities, yields a certain passion between the two men, and so Split is also a softly touching examination of an adoring (but nonetheless star-crossed) platonic relationship.
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