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Joan Didion ’s, “Play It as It Lays,” which has now been made into a movie by Frank Perry, is in many ways a consideration of such a fact. The movie concerns Maria, a woman who began life in a ferociously genuine Montana town, but has somehow found her way into the totally illusory world of the movies. She’s an actress, and maybe you ...
For example, she says that when her father called to tell her that her mother was dead, he told her that although she has been dealt a bad hand, she is holding all the aces. At the end of the film, Maria says that even though she knows what nothing means, as in a game of cards, she keeps on playing, hence the film's title, Play It As It Lays.
Play It as It Lays. Burned-out B-movie actress Maria (Tuesday Weld), depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his ...
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22 mag 2024 · Play it as it lays (1972), scheda completa del film di Frank Perry con Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins, Tammy Grimes: trama, cast, trailer, gallerie, boxoffice, premi, curiosità e news.
There’s a danger to Frank Perry's 1972 film adaptation of Joan Didion's 'Play It As It Lays' and that’s why we’ve subdued it for so long. Now 50 years later, it’s time to unleash the beast.
She was awful in Author Author, a beacon of light in Return to Peyton Place, and perfectly fine in Pretty Poison. Now, with Play It as It Lays, I think I finally get it, and I badly want to see more of her films. She is terrific and incredible here. I watched this on YouTube where the description calls it a bizarre film, and that is absolutely ...
This film is an excellent portrayal of a career/mid-life crisis, in its most existential form. Not to be morbid, but if you ever read in the headlines about someone who "has it all" and just committed suicide, (and you are still mystified by this) you should watch this film. It is a version of "The Bell Jar" as experienced in Hollywood.
