The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1977 features the Cannes Film Festival award winner 3 Women. Written and directed by Robert Altman and starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule and Robert Fortier, 3 Women won the Best Actress award for Shelley Duvall at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/3-women-1977), Vincent Canby in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/11/archives/altmans-3-women-a-moving-film-shelley-duvall-in-memorable-role.html), and Ruth Batchelor in the Los Angeles Free Press (https://voices.revealdigital.org/?a=d&d=BGJFHJH19770429.1.10&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------------1).

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