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May 22, 2021 · A Woman Under the Influence is a 1974 American drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. The story follows a woman (Gena Rowlands) whose unusual be...
Jan 27, 2017 · Heather Stewart Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Cover of the Criterion Collection edition of director John Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence (1974) In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s seminal short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrative presents a woman presumably driven to the point of insanity by her gendered social role and restriction to the domestic sphere.
A Woman Under the Influence: Directed by John Cassavetes. With Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands. Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage.
Charting Rowlands’s transformation as “Mabel” from endearingly kooky to bleakly incoherent (and back again), John Cassavetes’s A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is perhaps the most important examination of mental health ever captured onscreen. Cassavetes observes the ricochets between Mabel’s health and her in-laws’s “influence.”.
Mon. Jan 17, 6:00 pm. Monday, January 17 at 6:00pm | Cassavetes’ landmark film is an uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil and mental illness, starring Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk as a married couple deeply in love but unable to express themselves in terms the other can understand.
Watch A Woman Under the Influence and more new movie premieres on Max. Plans start at $9.99/month. A housewife suffers from mental health problems while her family tries to cope.
A Woman Under the Influence. The love and hate that bind men and women has rarely been evoked as plausibly or intensely as in this 1974 drama, directed by John Cassavetes. It stars his wife, Gena ...
