Made by Altman in the early eighties, it was way ahead of its time in its not-so-gentle satire on the wretched rituals that have become the 'dogma' of some people's idea of their dream wedding day. Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2014. You just need to look and find it. Nettletons Jewellers, 20 Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 2BX, United Kingdom. Previous page of related Sponsored Products, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Chaplin, Mia Farrow, Lillian Gish, Lauren Hutton, Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2016. If anything can go wrong as these divergent personalities come together, it does. A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. (as Timothy Thomerson), Ruteledge Child Lua | A Wedding (1978) Muffin’s wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. FAQ | It hangs together, although perhaps the only unities are those of time and place. Copyright © 2019 Nettletons Jewellers. Now I'm going to have to watch Nashville again and see if a similar thing happens. Registered charity 287780. This FAQ is empty. Please try again. Search the BFI National Archive collections, Read research data and market intelligence, Carol Burnett Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Altman's technique of interweaving plots is perfectly suited to weddings, one-time events where participants, all with their own axes to grind, clash. Explore film & TV. It is a movie that lets its characters all talk for themselves. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. This is a European film, not an American film.So I consider 'A Wedding' to be a finer movie than 'Nashville', and in fact one of the great movies of the 20th c. It is more understated, less obvious, without clear stories or points to make. Use the HTML below. Except the aging priest isn’t too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and … A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a homeless young man from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there. 'A Wedding' is one of the best Altman films for me, because it goes the furthest towards abandoning a unified structure and rational storyline, and presents a loose ensemble of stories and moments.A review of the time said it well for me.