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- Comprising multiple, loosely interwoven plot threads united as much by the characters' lyrical speech patterns as their end-of-life longings, "Ray Meets Helen" has a wistful, whimsical sophistication that has all but disappeared from movies.
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Ray Meets Helen Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue. Trying to balance whimsical romantic fantasy with a melancholy examination of...
May 3, 2018 · A preview of the film. Spying on Ginger one night, Ray encounters Helen (Sondra Locke), a destitute farmer who has come to Los Angeles to borrow money. She, too, has had a sudden windfall,...
- Alan Rudolph
- 2 min
Ray meets Helen during a random collision of altered fates. They are strangers, over 60, lonely, and luckless. He hit rock bottom in the big city, and she found it on a small farm.
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- Keith Carradine
- Alan Rudolph
- Drama, Romance
May 5, 2018 · Sudden windfalls enable two old-timers to flirt with rebooting their gone-stale lives in Ray Meets Helen, the first Alan Rudolph film since 2002’s The Secret Lives of Dentists.
- THR Staff
Apr 30, 2018 · In Ray Meets Helen, Rudolph offers a sampler course of his greatest hits, dusting off a number of stock characters and situations—the washed-up boxer who falls into a payday, the insurance scam, the philandering best friend, the lonely farm wife—and mixing them up into a cocktail of glamour, glitz, and the dime-store philosophy that one ...
May 17, 2018 · Even in his prime, Alan Rudolph always seemed lost in time, nostalgic for an unlived past. His flawed characters reflect this alienation to modernity, fatalistically drawn towards each other in expressionistically empty cities populated only by other luckless, lonely ensemble members. He is a genuine romantic, working against a mainstream Hollywood that seems historically unkind to
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 43% of 7 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10. [2] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
