Film · 1973 · Mystery
The Long Goodbye
Directed by Robert Altman
1973
★ 7.0 editorial score
Altman dropped Chandler's detective into 1973 Los Angeles and let him be completely out of step with it: Elliott Gould mumbles through a city that has stopped caring.
“For 1973’s The Long Goodbye, Altman made a washed-out, sun-dappled version of film noir, adapting Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel about L.A. gumshoe Philip Marlowe...Altman often said he never cared much about plot, but he and veteran screenwriter Leigh Brackett preserve almost every major story beat in Chandler’s book, making The Long Goodbye one of the most straightforward films Altman ever made.”
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