Richard Iritano

This prescient, Otto Preminger work of brilliance is a meditation on how arbitrarily cruel and alienating society can be, when conformity is eschewed, either by choice, or in this case, necessity. The recurring theme throughout the story is a willful sense of survival for these three displaced, societal castaways, despite how the beginnings of a quasi-declining American society of 1970, when the film was made, created a hostile, almost primitive environment that by today's starkly contrasting standards would barely register as any rational or justified reasons to ostracize three able bodied people, all of whom demanded a sense of belonging and purpose that engenders support—not sympathy—or worse, government assistance. Hence, 'Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon' is not merely a story that is ornamental—but, one that is rich in cosmic portent!