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Bookmark this pageInsignificance (1985)
Director: Nicolas Roeg
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From Time Out Film Guide
1954. As Monroe, Einstein, DiMaggio and McCarthy, Roeg assembles an excellent cast of non-stars, confines them in anonymous hotel rooms, and lets them rip on all his favourite topics: life, love, fame, hate, jealousy, atomic firestorm and the whole damn thing. As usual with Roeg, the firmament is streaming with large ideas and awkward emotions, which grow larger and larger in significance, and most of which come together in a delightful scene when Marilyn (Russell) explains relativity to Einstein (Emil) with the aid of clockwork trains and balloons. Curtis is Senator McCarthy, still witch-hunting phantoms of his mind; Busey is the washed-up ballplayer, aching for Marilyn's return. It may be a chamber piece, but its circumference is vast. CPea.Author: CPea
Cast & crew
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Cast: Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, Gary Busey, Will Sampson full cast
Duration: 109 mins
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