Gena Rowlands is Marion, a college professor (head of the philosophy department, no less) on sabbatical to write a book. She rents an apartment for this purpose, but finds that she can hear sessions from the psychologist’s office next door. In particular, she’s drawn to the reflections of Hope (Mia Farrow), a woman whose crisis has Marion reevaluating her own rigorously disciplined emotional life. What she discovers about herself is deeply unsettling.
There is a temptation to say that Rowlands has never been better than in this movie, but that would not be true. She is an extraordinary actor who is usually this good, and has been this good before, especially in some of the films of her husband, John Cassavetes. What is new here is the whole emotional tone of her character. Great actors and great directors sometimes find a common emotional ground, so that the actor becomes an instrument playing the director’s song…. Allen is introspective, considerate, apologetic, formidably intelligent, and controls people through thought and words rather than through physicality and temper. Rowlands now mirrors that personality. To see Another Woman is to get an insight into how good an actress Rowlands has been all along.
Roger Ebert
Rowlands’ perfectly pitched approach to a demanding role is particularly stunning.
Colette Maude, Time Out
Woody Allen
Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Gene Hackman
USA
1988
English
Indigenous & Community Access
Credits
Screenwriter
Woody Allen
Cinematography
Sven Nykvist
Editor
Susan E. Morse
Production Design
Santo Loquasto
Art Director
Speed Hopkins
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Dedicated to one of the most inspiring and influential American actresses of the past half century, this series showcases the versatility and star power that was Gena Rowlands.
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A Woman Under the Influence
Gena Rowlands is extraordinary in this painful and compassionate trial of love, the most intense and essential movie from legendary independent filmmaker John Cassavetes. "The toughest of all great American films." Kent Jones
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Gloria
Gena Rowlands was nominated for Best Actress for her portrait of gangster's moll Gloria Swenson: a tough, chain-smoking broad who finds herself running from her former friends in the mob to protect her next door neighbour's orphaned six-year-old kid.
Love Streams
The last movie Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes made together is an eccentrically beautiful, painful piece about a writer (Cassavetes) broken out of his self-imposed exile by the arrival of a son he doesn't know, and a sister he hasn't seen in years.
