Excellent Sci-Fi from an unlikely source- Robert Altman. The world is dying. Glaciers are descending so quickly that a city "in the South" that still functioned until recently, is almost no longer working. People swaddled in thick layers of clothing are huddled in the remains of an ice-bound city, no longer able to reproduce, with no future. Waiting for death, they spend their time playing a dangerous gambling game. From out of the snow an adventurer arrives (Paul Newman) with his pregnant young spouse.
The snowed-in city is brilliantly created on the site of Montreal's World Fairgrounds (Expo 1967). Dim electric lightbulbs thaw small hollows of ice in frigid snow-drifted rooms. One thinks of Doris Lessing's world dying of cold in "The Making of the Representative for Planet 8". A keen portrayal of a race without hope, barely clinging to any shreds of humanity.
The snowed-in city is brilliantly created on the site of Montreal's World Fairgrounds (Expo 1967). Dim electric lightbulbs thaw small hollows of ice in frigid snow-drifted rooms. One thinks of Doris Lessing's world dying of cold in "The Making of the Representative for Planet 8". A keen portrayal of a race without hope, barely clinging to any shreds of humanity.