Film
Chilly Scenes of Winter
- 4:30PM
Though it was billed as a quirky romantic comedy, Joan Micklin Silver’s adaptation of the novel by Ann Beattie could be read as a romantic horror movie, a thorny, emotionally complicated plunge into the dark side of obsessive love and male chauvinism. John Heard is the Salt Lake City office worker whose fixation on a married woman (Hurt) grows increasingly unhinged—an arc that Silver traces with a tricky balance of deceptively breezy humor and piercing pathos.
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