The Long Goodbye
Mystery • R • 1973 • 1 hr 52 min
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Gould's stumbling, mumbling Marlowe is the obvious highlight of this California-noir anti-mystery, along with the intriguing camera work.
You can see all of the influence that this film had on future noir films. It’s almost an anti noir but reinvigorates the genre
Marlowe mumbling and cigarette smoking all the time,in a world he doesn't belong, trying to feed his cat and avoiding hot girls,peak cinema.
Sometimes the contrast of noir with bright, sunny California is too much. Never here, when it gets the Altman treatment. Gould is great!
Enjoyed Gould as the smart aleck private eye. Some of the points didn’t matchup as neatly as desired. A little long winded.
Don’t need a big ending or giant unfolding plot it’s simple great dialogue and cinematography great use of its score . very 70s. >chinatown
The movie has style. Elliott Gould is fantastic. Solid noir film trying not to be a noir film.
Probably my favorite ending in a movie.
Great lead, great mystery, great gangsters, great cat, great topless women. I wouldn't change anything about this film.
Gould is like a Dude character, shopping for his cat food, ignoring the yoga class next door - brilliant neo-noir, Schwarzenegger cameo!
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