Girlfriends (1978)

Girlfriends: Directed by Claudia Weill. With Melanie Mayron, Eli Wallach, Adam Cohen, Anita Skinner. A photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.

“The central figure, played by Melanie Mayron, is a photographer sharing a large funky apartment on the Upper West Side of New York with her best girlfriend. The girlfriend suddenly decides to get married to someone sheu0026#39;s only recently met u0026amp; this seems to throw our main character into a period of soul searching. Who is she without her best friend? Can she handle the loneliness? The jealousy?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis film reminds me a lot of the Eric Rohmer films of the 70u0026#39;s u0026amp; 80u0026#39;s…stylewise, itu0026#39;s very stark. Nothing much happens. But itu0026#39;s the ordinariness of the characters that seems to draw us in. In some ways, this film is too stark…so plain are the cast, so grey is the scenery u0026amp; sometimes, so mundane the dialogue. But u0026#39;Girlfriendsu0026#39; has a warmth u0026amp; a charm that has always made me remember it. To add to this, the film now has the look and feel of another era, the late 70s, which is now interesting to look at in retrospect.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFans of u0026#39;Thirtysomethingu0026#39;, who enjoyed Melanie Mayronu0026#39;s character, Melissa, will especially like this film. There are a number of parallels between the two characters. She alone with her warm smile, crooked teeth and mass of wild hair, brings enormous humanity to the proceedings.”