Coming Apart (film)
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| New York psychiatrist Joe Glazer, who is going through a divorce, rents an apartment under the assumed name of Glassman and installs a hidden movie camera in a mirrored box to record his life and occasionally talk to. Most of the people who visit his apartment are women, including Joann, a former patient; Monica, an ex-mistress; and Karen, the wife of one of his best friends. Joe has sexual encounters with some of them. The camera records Joe's words and actions as well as his ongoing mental breakdown. | New York psychiatrist Joe Glazer, who is going through a divorce, rents an apartment under the assumed name of Glassman and installs a hidden movie camera in a mirrored box to record his life and occasionally talk to. Most of the people who visit his apartment are women, including Joann, a former patient; Monica, an ex-mistress; and Karen, the wife of one of his best friends. Joe has sexual encounters with some of them. The camera records Joe's words and actions as well as his ongoing mental breakdown. | ||
| + | ==Cast== | ||
| + | * [[Rip Torn]] as Joe Glazer | ||
| + | * [[Sally Kirkland]] as Joann | ||
| + | * [[Viveca Lindfors]] as Monica | ||
| + | * Megan McCormick as Joy | ||
| + | * Lois Markle as Elaine | ||
| + | * Lynn Swann as Anita | ||
| + | * Phoebe Dorin as Karen | ||
| + | * Nancy MacKay as Amy | ||
| + | * Julie Garfield as [[Eugene McCarthy]] campaign worker | ||
| + | * [[Kevin O'Connor (actor, born 1938)|Kevin O'Connor]] as Armand | ||
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Coming Apart is a 1969 American film directed by Milton Moses Ginsberg starring Rip Torn.
Coming Apart strongly reminds of another zeitgeist-reflecting film concerned with male angst and the war of the sexes: La Maman et la Putain. Three years before Jean Eustache's masterpiece/oddity, Ginsberg already has a very 'literary' approach to capture 'the real' and proposes duration (long takes, static camera) to cinematically fetishize reality.
One of the most memorable scenes where a young pregnant mother visits the protagonist psychiatrist ("it's worth a million dollars to me") reminds of It is not four years ago, a poem by John Suckling.
Plot
New York psychiatrist Joe Glazer, who is going through a divorce, rents an apartment under the assumed name of Glassman and installs a hidden movie camera in a mirrored box to record his life and occasionally talk to. Most of the people who visit his apartment are women, including Joann, a former patient; Monica, an ex-mistress; and Karen, the wife of one of his best friends. Joe has sexual encounters with some of them. The camera records Joe's words and actions as well as his ongoing mental breakdown.
Cast
- Rip Torn as Joe Glazer
- Sally Kirkland as Joann
- Viveca Lindfors as Monica
- Megan McCormick as Joy
- Lois Markle as Elaine
- Lynn Swann as Anita
- Phoebe Dorin as Karen
- Nancy MacKay as Amy
- Julie Garfield as Eugene McCarthy campaign worker
- Kevin O'Connor as Armand
