A Woman Under The Influence
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 14, 2008
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gena Rowlands & Peter Falk | |
Performer: | Matthew Cassel, Matthew Laborteaux, Christina Grisanti, Katherine Cassavetes, Lady Rowlands, Fred Draper, Mario Gallo & John Finnegan | |
Directed by | John Cassavetes | |
Edited by | David Armstrong, Elizabeth Bergeron, Sheila Viseltear & Tom Cornwell | |
Written by | John Cassavetes | |
Composition by | Bo Harwood | |
Cinematography by | Mitch Breif | |
Produced by | Sam Shaw |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
Mental illness as theater.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 3/5 --
It should be seen for its undeniably brilliant elements.
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Radio Times
A Woman Under the Influence essentially ends with a shrug, its cynical ending a statement of pointlessness and hopelessness and the futility of railing against an imposed social structure.
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Birth.Movies.Death.
Rating: 4.5/5 --
'Be yourself,' Nick implores Mabel. But how do you be yourself if you have no longer have a self?
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Filmspotting
Cassavetes makes the viewer's frustration work as part of the film's expressiveness; it has an emotional rhythm unlike anything else I've ever seen.
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Chicago Reader
Falk and Rowlands -- in performances of almost indescribable intensity -- detail a marriage anchored by love, but tossed by the expectations of others and the unpredictable swell of madness.
AV Club
His most devastating film to date, it proves Cassavetes is a master of sensitivity, intimacy and passion on the screen.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Product Description:
John Cassavetes's A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is an emotionally devastating drama that charts the mental disintegration of a California housewife. Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands) has no emotional or creative outlets. Instead, she pours all her energy into her family, spending her days waiting for her husband Nick (Cassavetes regular and COLUMBO star Peter Falk) to arrive home from work, and anxiously awaiting her children's return from school. This dependence causes Mabel to suffer a nervous breakdown, forcing her to spend time in a mental hospital. Meanwhile, Nick struggles mightily to keep his family together. When Mabel returns six months later, dazed and shaken, a "welcome home" party threatens to trigger another collapse.
As the confused, overwhelmed, and hypersensitive Mabel, Rowlands delivers one of the screen's most excruciatingly honest performances. This can directly be attributed to Rowlands's real-life husband Cassavetes, whose insistence on getting to the inner core of his characters' emotional states defined him as an artist. Falk portrays Nick with a harsh yet delicate pathos that is also honest and heartbreaking. A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is an awe-inspiring work of art from a maverick American director.
As the confused, overwhelmed, and hypersensitive Mabel, Rowlands delivers one of the screen's most excruciatingly honest performances. This can directly be attributed to Rowlands's real-life husband Cassavetes, whose insistence on getting to the inner core of his characters' emotional states defined him as an artist. Falk portrays Nick with a harsh yet delicate pathos that is also honest and heartbreaking. A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is an awe-inspiring work of art from a maverick American director.
Description by Image Entertainment:
John Cassavetes' devastating drama details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family's struggle to save her from herself. Starring Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands (in two of the most harrowing screen performances of the 1970s) as a married couple deeply in love yet unable to express that love in terms the other can understand, the film is an uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil. The Criterion Collection is proud to present one of the benchmark films of American independent cinema: a heroic document from a true maverick director. Available for the first time as a stand-alone release, from the box set John Cassavetes: Five Films.
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