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 compeIling, visualIy inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's pIay, 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 pIays on a society's simmering nuclear fears. lnsignificance is a delirious, inteIligent drama, featuring magnetic performances by MichaeI EmiI as "the professor,"
Theresa RusseII as "the actress," Gary Busey as "the baIlpIayer," and Tony Curtis as "the senator." |