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Another Woman - 1988
Une autre femme
Eine andere Frau
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 84 minutesFilm Remarks:
Gena Rowlands plays a philosophy professor who one day accidentilly hears a therapy session in the next-door office. The chance observation causes her to reflect upon lies and deceptions in her own life.
Main Cast:
- Gena Rowlands .... Marion Post
- Mia Farrow .... Hope
- Ian Holm .... Ken
- Blythe Danner .... Lydia
- Gene Hackman .... Larry Lewis
- Betty Buckley .... Kathy
- Martha Plimpton .... Laura
- John Houseman .... Marion's Father
- Sandy Dennis .... Claire
- David Ogden Stiers .... Young Marion's Father
- Philip Bosco .... Sam
- Harris Yulin .... Paul
- Frances Conroy .... Lynn
- Fred Melamed .... Patient's Voice/Engagement Party Guest
- Kenneth Welsh .... Donald
See Full Cast & Credits Editorial:
This underrated film is by far Woody Allen's most satisfying I-wish-I-were-Ingmar Bergman movie, and in its elegantly constrained fashion it teems with imagination--not to mention a glorious cast. Gena Rowlands plays a philosophy professor who, subletting an apartment as a writing office, finds that the confidences murmured to her psychiatrist neighbor are audible through the air vents. In particular, the fears and desperation of a younger, very pregnant woman (Mia Farrow) trigger a stream of reveries regarding the professor's own life, past romances, and troubled family. Some of these seem to be straightforward memories (though we take too much for granted, and that's part of the point); others are theatrically stylized, with different actors taking over roles initiated by others (Rowlands sometimes appears in long-ago flashbacks, trading off with Margaret Marx as her younger self).
Allen had, like his protagonist, recently turned 50, and the sense of personal stocktaking here is much more compelling--and much less self-indulgent--than in a lot of his other films. Surely the magisterial presence of Rowlands made a big difference. She's in excellent company, including Ian Holm as the prof's tightly wrapped husband, Sandy Dennis as the dear old actress friend who hates her guts, and John Houseman as her widower father. Like Lloyd Nolan's in Hannah and Her Sisters and Keye Luke's in Alice, Houseman's turned out to be a valedictory performance. We cherish it--along with the inspired casting of David Ogden Stiers as, in effect, the younger John Houseman.
--Richard T. Jameson from Amazon.com
Movie Trivia & Awards:
Many fans already know that this was John Hauseman's last film. But did you also know....Additional:
Gross: $1.562m (USA)
Release Date: November 18, 1989 (USA) March 1, 1989 (France - Une autre femme), March 16, 1989 (West Germany - Eine andere Frau), July 18, 1989 (Finland), March 17, 1989 (Sweeden)
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