The Long Goodbye - English subtitled
Not a classic Chandler adaptation, but an ironic take on the genre, with Marlowe wandering lost through a sun-drenched Los Angeles.
A neo-noir crime film in which private detective Philip Marlowe finds himself in deep trouble.
Robert Altman updates Raymond Chandler for the liberated, hedonistic 1970s in this brilliantly idiosyncratic adaptation of one of the writer’s most renowned novels. Elliott Gould brings a sarcastic wit to his portrayal of private eye Philip Marlowe, who helps out his old friend Terry Lennox late one night by driving him across the border from Los Angeles to Tijuana – only to discover once he’s back that Lennox’s wife has been murdered. As Marlowe is drawn deeper into a labyrinthine investigation involving the search for a missing novelist, Altman exposes the darkness lurking beneath California’s sun-splashed surface. (source: The Criterion Channel)