Review – The Three Faces of Eve

How can multiple personality disorder possibly be this dull? Joanne Woodward’s break-through performance as poor, mentally ill Eve/Eve/Jane was critically acclaimed at the time, but frankly I thought it was cartoonish. She comes across as a woman with no personality, let alone three. Further, Scientologists must really love this picture. The art, craft and science of psychiatry are reduced to a dull battle of wits between shrinks and a woman who can pop back and forth between personalities with the alacrity of a Simpsons voice actor being interviewed on a talk show. Oh, and don’t even get me started on the musical numbers. If nothing else, I was hoping for some horrible childhood trauma on par with the vastly superior MPD production Sybil. Even on this point the movie disappoints. See if desperate