Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2

Director in Person
Directed by William Greaves.
With Audrey Henningham, Shannon Baker, William Greaves, Bob Rosen.
US, 2005, digital video, color, 94 min.

35 years later after the making of Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, William Greaves is back in Central Park filming the same actors playing the same roles. Alice and Freddie—the young married couple bitterly arguing in the 1968 film—have gone their separate ways. Alice is now a successful, if somewhat fading, cabaret singer; Freddie a much-in-demand group therapist.  It is a beautiful fall day. The New York City Marathon is about to begin and all looks well as they meet for the first time since their nasty break-up thirty-five years earlier. It is obvious that they both want to bury the past. But the director has other ideas.          

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