Death Watch (1980)
Why have I never heard of this film before?
17 July 2004
Warning: Spoilers
This was listed on a commercial station (55- in NYC- thank you!) and was

played with mercifully few breaks. Still! An amazing, timely, quite profound and haunting movie. As mentioned elsewhere it is a bit ponderous and does

meander, but the best moments are gorgeous. Spoiler?: (Harvey catching sight

of the intimate moments he's filmed in a grocery store and realizing the betrayal of trust he has engineered.) The brief soliloquoy by Max Von Sydow on the lack of 'meaning' in life- which somehow is comforting! The version that another commentor mentions wherein Romy (and without you

other cineastes I wouldn't know that this was Romy's last film- what a waste!) is not dying- is just being set up- that would make perfect sense. Harry Dean is fabulous- why doesn't he work more? Please consider upping the rating of this.
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