"It is not often given to a director to make a perfect
film. Some spend their lives trying, but always fall short. Robert Altman has
made a dozen films that can be called great in one way or another, but one of
them is perfect, and that one is 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller' (1971).
This is one of the saddest films I have ever seen, filled with a yearning for
love and home that will not ever come -- not for McCabe, not with Mrs. Miller,
not in the town of Presbyterian Church, which cowers under a gray sky always
heavy with rain or snow. The film is a poem--an elegy for the dead." --excerpt from a full review by Roger Ebert on RoberEbert.com
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