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A Woman Under the Influence
IFC Center
Saturday, Jun 1, 2024 6:30 PM
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Admission General Admission - $18.00
Admission Senior - $15.00
Admission Child - $15.00

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50th Anniversary!

Nominated for multiple Oscars, Emmys and Golden Globes (and taking home her share of wins), Gena Rowlands is a legend forever. Across her extensive career, she’s worked with Jim Jarmsuch, Paul Mazursky, William Friedkin, Terence Davies — and John Cassavetes, with whom she had one of the greatest ongoing actor-director collaborations in film history.

Charting Rowlands’ transformation as “Mabel” from endearingly kooky to bleakly incoherent and back again, 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’ “influence”— but at the heart of this film is her relationship with her conservative husband (an equally amazing Peter Falk), who struggles in vain to pull Mabel out of her ever-worsening decline. Both tough-as-bricks and delicate, WOMAN goes straight for the throat.


“Cassavetes’ masterpiece, and one of the best films of its decade.” - Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader



Film Details
Country:USA
Year:1974
Format:DCP
Running Time:127
Director:John Cassavetes
Cast:Gena Rowlands
Peter Falk
Fred Draper
Lady Rowlands
Katherine Cassavetes
Accessibility:Assistive Listening
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Pull Quote:“An astonishing, compulsive film, directed with a crackling energy."
Publication:Time Out