Ray Meets Helen
Ray meets Helen during a random collision of altered fates. They are strangers, over sixty, lonely, luckless. He hit rock bottom in the big city, she on a small farm. It’s a struggle not to give up or in. But then separately and without warning, each becomes overwhelmed by unrelated and extraordinary events.
22 December 1958, Augusta, Georgia, USA
24 April 1984, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
4 May 1955, USA
5 March 1976, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
17 May 1966, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 July 1982, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 September 1956, Venice, California, USA
June 26, 2018
"Ray Meets Helen is political in the sense that matters most. It goes beneath the surface of its characters' differences to show what they have in common - what makes them soul mates."
May 04, 2018
Sadly, the magic doesn't happen this time for Alan Rudolph, a very special filmmaker whose specialty has always been romance among the lost.
May 03, 2018
Comprising multiple, loosely interwoven plot threads united as much by the characters' lyrical speech patterns as their end-of-life longings, "Ray Meets Helen" has a wistful, whimsical sophistication that has all but disappeared from movies.
May 02, 2018
While it bears many of the thematic and stylistic hallmarks that made Rudolph a reliable figure on the '80s indie scene with such films as "Choose Me" and "Trouble in Mind," this mannered character study comes across as more affected than affecting.
April 30, 2018
After 15 years away from the cinema, Alan Rudolph reminds one of the suggestive potency of his films.
May 06, 2018
Moviegoers expecting a sprightly golden-years romance have come to the wrong place. So have those looking for a moody but credible reflection on decades of regrets.
