Nashville

i’ve been putting off watching nashville for a long time just because i’ve been so intimidated by the sheer size of it (and i knew i wanted to see it in the cinema), but i was blown away by just how inviting this film is. i barely felt the almost three hour runtime and just getting to watch all these characters interact and go about their lives was so enthralling- every single one of them felt like a real person with real motives and real feelings, only strengthened by all round pitch perfect performances. the visual style here was also so much more layered than i was expecting, all of the wide shots that manage to capture so many different stories and little moments at once almost reminded me of something out of a jacques demy movie, and everything with reflections in glass was just so brilliant. i have so much more to say about this but i’m sure i’ll be revisiting this countless times in the future. robert altman is a madman and i can’t believe he pulls this off and still makes it look easy.  the textbook definition of a film that makes you go ‘they don’t make em like they used to’