gridoon2024 Review of Streamers

Streamers (1983)

A daring and unique filmic experiment - though you can sort of see why it has rarely been attempted before or since

[6/10 · 25 April 2020]

This is an audacious undertaking by Robert Altman: I've seen a lot of films with a single setting, but rarely one confined within literally a few square feet (of an army barracks). Altman succeeds in making this intimate, and sometimes intense, rather than simply claustrophobic, though there aren't really any new insights here about either homosexuality or the army (the movie's two chief topics). The performances are all excellent and justifiably praised (and awarded). Altman has done better, but he has also done a lot worse; "Streamers" is at the very least worth one viewing. **1/2 out of 4.