Robert Altman directs a fine cast with all the authority and finesse a good play deserves, so it's too bad the play fooled them all. Sam Shepard's drama of intense, forbidden love in the modern West is made to seem like specious stuff filled with dramatic ideas left over from the 1950s.
This review of Fool for Love (1985) was written by Lee M on 27 Nov 2014.
Fool for Love has generally received mixed reviews.
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