That Cold Day in the Park

Robert Altman
United States, Canada, 1969

Restored 35mm Archival Print

featuring

Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, Susanne Benton, Michael Murphy,

From her ornate parkside apartment, a lonely, repressed woman (Sandy Dennis) spies a lonely young man soaking in the cold Vancouver rain and invites him in for a hot bath. The two quickly slip into a queasy roleplay, feeding each other’s needs for attention, affection, or something else. As the original pressbook for the film posits, “When does a screaming loneliness drown the silence of reason?” Locked doors yield a Gothic turnabout. The film is based on a book by gay novelist and former child actor Richard Miles, with a screenplay from the controversial English writer Gillian Freeman (The Leather Boys). 

Jeff Griffith-Perham
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Gillian Freeman
Based On

  • the novel by Richard Miles

Cinematographer
  • László Kovács
Print Info
  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 113 mins
Source
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive
Permission
  • Paramount Pictures
Additional Info
  • 35mm print courtesy of the Robert Altman Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funded by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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