Robert Altmans That Cold Day in the Park (1969) is a chilling psychological thriller about a lonely woman who invites a mysterious young man into her apartment, only to spiral into obsession and paranoia. With Sandy Dennis in a haunting performance, the film builds claustrophobic tension and foreshadows Altmans later mastery of atmosphere and character studies.

Made after years of directing television and industrial films - and just one year before his commercial breakthrough with M*A*S*H - Robert Altmans underrated psychosexual chiller That Cold Day in the Park, arguably the first true Altman film, is a stylish harbinger of the themes that would resonate through many of the directors later masterpieces such as Images and 3 Women.

On a cold and rainy day, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis, Academy Award winner for Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), a reclusive virgin sheltered from the sexual revolution happening outside her door, suddenly becomes obsessed with an enigmatic 19 year-old boy she sees sitting on a park bench. Inviting him into her apartment to be bathed and fed, Frances repressed fantasies soon violently boil over into a dangerous and disturbing desire to keep the boy in her clutches... no matter what.

Adapted from Richard Miles novel by British author Gillian Freeman (The Leather Boys), Altman expertly turns the screws in this suspenseful tale of sexual repression, the chilly Vancouver locations vividly photographed by László Kovács the same year he lensed Easy Rider, and accompanied by a haunting score from Johnny Mandel, just before he co-wrote the anthem Suicide Is Painless for Altmans next film.

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One day, Frances Austen, a rich but lonely woman, invites a young man from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him stay there--and has no intention of ever letting him leave.

Detta är en importfilm. De har oftast inte svensk