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: Julie Christie plays a madam whose pragmatic exterior hides a deep opium addiction. She represents the harsh reality of frontier survival. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) - Film Review / Analysis

: Warren Beatty’s John McCabe is a "seedy pimp-cum-entrepreneur." He is often outmatched by his ambitions and Mrs. Miller's intelligence.

Robert Altman’s 1971 classic, , is widely regarded as a "perfect" film and a definitive "anti-western" that subverts nearly every trope of the genre. Rather than heroic gunfights, it presents a bleak, atmospheric elegy for the American frontier, trading standard heroics for a story about "love, death, and capitalism". Cinematic Style and Atmosphere

: Altman often used overlapping dialogue. This makes the dialogue feel natural, but sometimes unintelligible. This technique is now seen as essential to its realism. Thematic Core