A Safe Place (1971)A strange young woman lives in a fantasy world where she can never grow up. Director:Henry JaglomWriter:Henry Jaglom |
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A Safe Place (1971)A strange young woman lives in a fantasy world where she can never grow up. Director:Henry JaglomWriter:Henry Jaglom |
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Susan /
Noah
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| Orson Welles | ... |
The Magician
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| Jack Nicholson | ... |
Mitch
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| Phil Proctor | ... |
Fred
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Gwen Welles | ... |
Bari
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Dov Lawrence | ... |
Larry
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Fanny Birkenmier | ... |
The Maid
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Rhonda Alfaro | ... |
Little Girl in Rowboat
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Sylvia Zapp | ... |
Susan at Age 7
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Richard Finnochio | ... |
Noah's Friend
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Barbara Flood | ... |
Noah's Friend
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Roger Garrett | ... |
Noah's Friend
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Jordon Hahn | ... |
Noah's Friend
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Francesca Hilton | ... |
Noah's Friend
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Julie Robinson | ... |
Noah's Friend
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A young woman named Noah lives alone in New York. She is a disturbed flower child, who retreats into her past, yearning for lost innocence. She recalls her childhood, searching for a "safe place." As a child she met a magician in Central Park who presented her with magical objects: a levitating silver ball, a star ring, and a Noah's ark. She is romantically involved with two totally different men. Fred is practical but dull. Mitch is dynamic and sexy, her ideal fantasy partner. Neither man is able to totally fulfill her needs. Written by alfiehitchie
So, let me get this straight - if I have a taste for Fellini, Antonioni and Godard I'll feel right at home with A Safe Place? Um, no. I love Fellini, right up through 8 1/2. I've enjoyed much of Antonioni. Godard
- a mixed bag for me, but I like Breathless and Alphaville fine, and
Band Of Outsiders, too. Mr. Jaglom is not in their company, at least for me, and A Safe Place is a pretentious mess from start to finish. No one loves Tuesday Weld more than I, and she's fine. Jack Nicholson, who came in for a day and improvised everything is embarrassing. Gwen Welles gives new meaning to self-indulgent, but then again she has the most self-indulgent filmmaker imaginable "directing" her.I have never met a Henry Jaglom film I liked - ever. And his "thing" that if you don't respond to his films then you don't understand women is, well, fatuous. I'm glad he considers himself such an enlightened and sensitive man, but I'm not buying nor are many of my women friends. It is the type of cinema that makes me want to throw up and not because I don't like experimental or interesting films, because I have and I do. As I sat there with drool running out of my mouth because I'd just invested what I thought was almost ninety minutes of my time, I paused the film to find out I was only at the forty-minute mark.
However, one has to commend any filmmaker who keeps on doing it - he does it with his own funds (good to be wealthy) and as long as he keeps having girlfriends he'll keep making films because his entire oeuvre is based on his love life.