Critics reviews

Paul Newman's primly straightforward take on The Glass Menagerie and Andrei Konchalovsky's barely controlled bayou soap opera Shy People qualified for the Main Competition. Exacerbating this imbalance, Shy People snagged a Best Actress prize for Barbara Hershey (fiercely committed to her film's shaky premises), while Matewan's reels weren't even projected in the right order.

With its densely layered procession of sounds as well as sights--suggesting some of the ambience of Rear Window and the opening shot in The Conversation--this movement defines a complex and mysterious trajectory that becomes as dense and unpredictable as the later Heart of Darkness journey to Ruth's house in the swamps.