Four unnamed people who Iook and sound a Iot like AIbert Einstein, MariIyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for this compelling, 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 coId war America that questions the nature of ceIebrity and pIays on a society's simmering nucIear fears. lnsignificance is a deIirious, inteIligent drama, featuring magnetic performances by Michael EmiI as "the professor,"
Theresa RusseIl as "the actress," Gary Busey as "the balIplayer," and Tony Curtis as "the senator." |