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Nashville (1975) is maverick director/producer Robert Altman's classic, multi-level, original, two and a half-hour epic study of American culture, show-business, leadership and politics - and one of the great American films of the... See more » Nashville (1975) is maverick director/producer Robert Altman's classic, multi-level, original, two and a half-hour epic study of American culture, show-business, leadership and politics - and one of the great American films of the 1970s. Its emergence at the end of two troubling eras (Watergate and the Vietnam War) and on the eve of the country's Bicentennial celebrations signaled that it was commenting upon the confused state of American society. Its free-flowing narrative (from a screenplay by screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury) revealed the shallowness of American life - political emptiness and show-business commercialism are equated. Underneath the drama about the country-western music business and the election campaign of an unseen, independent (populist) party candidate, the multi-faceted, beautifully-structured film is an ensemble piece, a rich mosaic and a complex tapestry. It tells the free-form, explosive tragic-comedic tale of the inter-twined (and colliding) lives of twenty-four protagonists during a five day (long weekend) period in Nashville, Tennessee (the "Athens of the South") - the capital of country music and a microcosmic representation of all society. The fund-raising rally is to be held at the Parthenon in Nashville [the replica of the Greek Parthenon, a symbol of democracy, was erected in 1876 for the nation's first centenary]. During the weekend, both a music festival and political rally bring together the protagonists in random fashion -- they express their hopes, dishonest intentions, dreams, and frustrated lives. There are Nashville residents, civic leaders, populist politicians and their frontmen, singing stars and managers, wannabes, reporters, fans, and other drifters, hangers-on, and misfits, who move through various locales including the Grand Ole Opry itself, the airport, the freeway, recording studios, parking lots, motel and hospital rooms, private homes, and nightclubs. Individuals have come with different agendas - love-making, a shot at stardom or political advancement, aspirations within the music business, and longing desperation, to name just a few of their motivations in this exhilarating film: See less »

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