Five Easy Pieces
The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
When
Wed 18 Feb 2026
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Rafelson’s quietly combustible portrait of a man forever fleeing himself forged the archetypal Jack Nicholson persona – feral and wounded, each quality feeding the other in a thoroughly embodied, startling performance.
Carole Eastman’s screenplay mixes offhand humour with jagged melancholy, capturing the road movie’s core impulse: movement as evasion rather than pursuit. Laszlo Kovacs’ cinematography turns every roadside stop into a study in alienation. With Karen Black, Lois Smith, Bill “Green” Bush, Susan Anspach, Toni Basil and Helena Kallianiotes in one of cinema’s most memorable cameos.
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