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| Faces International | Release Date: November 18, 1974 |
Starring:
Christina Grisanti, Fred Draper, Gena Rowlands, George Dunn, Katherine Cassavetes, Lady Rowlands, Mario Gallo, Matthew Cassel, Matthew Labyorteaux, Peter Falk
Summary:
Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage.
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Cassavetes wrote and directed on his standard improvisational shoestring. The oft-shattering result, which runs 2 1/2 hours, is so uneasily lifelike that the academy temporarily ignored its prejudice against independent productions by rewarding Rowlands and Cassavetes with Oscar nominations. [18 Sep 1992, p.3D]
A Woman Under the Influence gives us a woman whose influences only gradually reveal themselves. And as they do, they give us insights not only into one specific, brilliantly created, woman but into some of the problems of surviving in a society where very few people are fully liberated.
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As with most Cassavetes' it is Rowlands who steals this show, this time expertly playing the happy housewife slowly going off the rails while Falk plays the part of her bewildered husband. At two-and-a-half hours, it could easily have dragged but with such strong performances, you're left wanting more.
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The scenes are often unshaped, and so rudderless that the meanings don't emerge. Rowlands externalizes schizophrenic dissolution; she fragments before our eyes. But her prodigious performance is enough for half a dozen tours de force--it's exhausting.
Jun 21, 2020
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