Nic Roeg
Insignificance
Theresa Russell, Gary Busey,Tony Curtis
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Marilyn Monroe, Joe Dimaggio, and Joe Mcarthy
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Nic Roeg
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Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for this compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's play, from director Nicolas Roeg. With a combination of whimsy and dread, Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror picture of cold war America that questions the nature of celebrity and plays on a society's simmering nuclear fears. Insignificance is a delirious, intelligent drama, featuring magnetic performances by Michael Emil as "the professor," Theresa Russell as "the actress," Gary Busey as "the ballplayer," and Tony Curtis as "the senator."
Marilyn Monroe (Theresa Russell), in Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance--with clips of Theresa Russell, Gary Busey (Joe Dimaggio) and (Albert Einstein), and commentary by Kinky Senator Joseph Mcarthy, and anecdotes concerning his personal relationship with Marilyn Monroe, played breathlessly by Theresa Russell, whose immortalized blown upskirt dress whilst standing over the grate on the streets of New York City during the filming of Some Like it Hot is flawlessly captured here by Russell, through husband, Roeg's genius