That Cold Day in the Park
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Date: January 01, 1969 to December 31, 1969
Dates Note: 1969
Country of Origin:
Canada
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United States
Place of Origin: United States, Canada
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Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On: the novel by Richard Miles
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.
Curator Notes
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Robert Altman at 100Description:
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).
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