CAST: ORSON WELLES, HENRY JAGLOM, SALLY 
KELLERMAN, MICHAEL EMIL, ANDREA MARCOVICCI, 
OJA KODAR, AND INTRODUCING DAVE FRISHBERG 
AND STEPHEN BISHOP.

1989 110 min Color R.

"hENRY JAGLOM DARES US TO LOVE!"

-Michael Ventura, L.A. Weekly

 -Jerry Tallmer, NEW YORK POST

“HENRY JAGLOM’S ‘SOMEONE TO LOVE,’ AT LONG LAST, PUTS A HUMAN FACE BACK ONTO AMERICAN FILM! It is a genuinely loving movie—lightly satiric and radiantly alive. Instead of what we’ve had throughout the 80’s—the anonymous, corporate smirk, the desperate grin of the panicky salesman—Jaglom’s film offers something different: the hesitant smile of a troubled friend, the sympathetic glance of a mystified lover, occasional bafflement, infatuation and skepticism, awkwardness, perplexity, shafts of humorous ecstasy and hope. And the simple question it asks—why do we all feel so alone?—becomes all the more touching when we see it posed, answered, mulled over and pulled rollickingly apart by the engaging little community Jaglom assembles for us in a condemned theatre in Santa Monica: Sally Kellerman, Michael Emil, Andrea Marcovicci, Oja Kodar, Stephen Bishop, Monte Hellman, Ronee Blakley. AT THE CENTER OF THIS CHARMING AND PROVOCATIVE GALLERY IS AN UNFORGETTABLE FACE: ORSON WELLES IN HIS FAREWELL PERFORMANCE, with all his masks and false noses and greasepaint removed—himself at last, yet as sophisticated as Harry Lime, as commanding as Kane, as relentlessly interrogatory as Quinlan, as confused as O’Hara, as endearing and poignantly funny, warm and sly as Falstaff. If we have ever wondered what a pleasure it would have been to sit across from Welles at a table to hear his quicksilver thoughts, impudent erudition, ironies and jests, JAGLOM HERE OFFERS US ALL THAT SPECIAL AND WONDERFUL GIFT: THE TREASURES OF WELLES' COMPANY SEEMINGLY UNDILUTED AND PURE. AT THE END, AS IF JAGLOM FINDS IT WRENCHINGLY HARD TO LET HIM GO, HE KEEPS SUMMONING HIS OLD FRIEND—that Prospero, Lear and Prometheus of the cinema—back and back in the editing: through the credits, after the credits, after the blackout, finally roaring at us all with a Rabelaisian, Falstaffian glee—AS IF FOR ENDLESS ENCORES FROM AN AUDIENCE THAT WILL NOT, CANNOT LET HIM GO—AN AUDIENCE WHICH WANTS HIM NEVER TO LEAVE, DOESN'T WANT THE CURTAIN EVER RUNG DOWN. AND OF COURSE, WE DON'T."

-MICHAEL WILMINGTON, LOS ANGELES TIMES

“'SOMEONE TO LOVE' IS AT ONCE FUNNY AND SERIOUS, A WONDERFUL MOVIE—A FAR-RANGING AND RICHLY VARIED MUSING ON THE HUMAN COMEDY, CONTEMPORARY STYLE. Henry Jaglom genuinely seems to like women, and the screen glows with the elegant beauty and sexuality of Andrea Marcovicci, Sally Kellerman and the exotic and fascinating Oja Kodar. And it is as if Orson Welles, mellow and charming and dazzlingly eloquent, instinctively sensed he'd been given an opportunity to sum up the wisdom of a lifetime and decided to make the best of it. IT IS NOT TOO MUCH TO SAY THAT ‘SOMEONE TO LOVE’ BRINGS US IN TOUCH WITH OURSELVES!”

-KEVIN THOMAS, LOS ANGELES TIMES

“THAT IS WHAT MAKES HENRY JAGLOM’S FILMS SO TRUE TO OUR TIME, AT ONCE SO MODEST AND SO AMBITIOUS—HE WANTS NOTHING MORE, AND NOTHING LESS, THAN TO CAPTURE CONTEMPORARY REALITY ITSELF. And he succeeds with 'Someone To Love.' Future scientists studying our times will find no films that tell more directly how we really thought and talked than those of Henry Jaglom. He lulls us into believing in the movies again!”

-JOHN RICHARDSON, PREMIERE MAGAZINE

"SOMEONE TO LOVE’ IS UNFLINCHING YET SWEET, PIERCING YET FUNNY, DESPERATE YET SHINING WITH A CHILDLIKE FAITH IN THE WHOLE SAD SILLY LOVELY HUMAN RACE. IN THIS BRILLIANT, HONEST, MANY-LAYERED FILM—AT ONCE TOUCHING AND HILARIOUS—HENRY JAGLOM DARES US TO LOVE, DARES US TO STARE DOWN THE CAMERA OF OUR INNER EYE, TO RISK BANALITY AND LOSS, AND ATTEMPT LOVE WITHOUT HOPING FOR HAPPY ENDINGS. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME A WORK OF ART MADE SUCH CLASSICAL DEMANDS IN SUCH CONTEMPORARY TERMS?”

 -MICHAEL VENTURA, L.A. WEEKLY

"WONDERFUL HUMAN COMEDY—ONE OF THE YEAR'S 10 BEST FILMS!"

-MICHAEL BLOWEN, BOSTON GLOBE