A Woman under the Influence (Gena Rowlands & John Cassavetes)
A Woman Under the Influence
.USA 1974 | John Cassavetes | vostFR | 147’ | 35mm | Cast : Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper, Matthew Cassel ► Nominee Best Director, Best Actress (Rowlands); Oscars 1975
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Écrasée par le poids de sa famille et les conventions de la société, Mabel glisse doucement vers la folie...
« Le film est la tragi-comédie d’une femme de bonne volonté qui essaie de satisfaire tout le monde en restant elle-même, n’y parvient pas et craque. L’extraordinaire langage de gestes et mimiques inventés par Gena Rowlands est l’expression la plus immédiate et la plus probante de l’altérité du personnage. » (50 ans de cinéma américain, Ed.Nathan)
« 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. » (Roger Ebert)
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