- Format: PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Optimum
- DVD Release Date: 23 Oct 2006
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000HEVTO0
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 66,024 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Shot and released back in 1974, Woman is a searingly honest depiction of a wife and mother cruising along the edges of sanity. Cassavetes cast his own partner Gene Rowlands as 'the everyday housewife' and was rewarded with a power-house performance which remains a career best. Close friend and co-hort Peter Falk filled the role of Rowlands' husband, getting a rare chance to demonstrate his skill and sensitivity as an actor with a striking protrayal of a working joe suddenly confronted with the unknown. The story is a simple narrative following the woman's struggle with her inner demons, balanced with the subsequent effect on her small family which is thrown into near turmoil without her at the helm. This is a haunting film, lovingly made and every inch an equal to the following year's Oscar shower, One flew over the Cuckoo's nest (also dealing with mental health). Futhermore, the movie has aged remarkably well; no doubt due to the fact that modern-day living - house, car, pet etc. - remains largely unchanged. A woman under the influence is a testament to Cassavetes' gift and bravery as a filmmaker and there is quality right down the line. Gene Rowlands rightly won herself an Oscar for her journey into darkness and helped ensure that this film ranks along the finest of 70's cinema.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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The first John Cassavetes film I ever saw was 'A Woman Under the Influence,' and I was gripped by it from the moment it started. This film is excellent through Gena Rowlands' portrayal of a housewife who suffers a nervous and mental breakdown. I daresay when the film was released in the early seventies it must have caused quite an uproar with the themes that it explored. Peter Falk is great as Rowlands' husband trying to pick up the pieces after his wife's destructive behaviour has left him to care for his children and the everyday running of his house.Cassavetes as a director has the ability to convey on screen the turbulent emotions of ordinary people like you and me just trying to live life day to day. I would recommend this film to anyone who wanted to see a good Cassavetes film.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Gena Rowlands gives a powerful performance of a woman who ...well its easy to say she has mental problems as she flits between despair and euphoria, walks along lost in her own world, drinks herself stupid and can hardly string a sentence together while desperately trying to convey her feelings to her husband, and then eventually gets forcibly sectioned. When I first saw this film I let myself make some easy assumptions, just like the characters outside the husband/wife central relationship then Cassavettes delivers the gut punch at the end of the film and I suddenly realised what was going on, *BEWARE SPOILER*, Rowlands is having a nervous breakdown and although she loves her husband its his domestic and mental abuse that has put her the way that she is. A Woman Under the Influence, you see it now, I watched the film again with different eyes. All the performances are top rate and if you've never known someone who's having a nervous breakdown then watch this and take note.
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Wonderful script
A wonderfully-written script,tight directing and award-winning acting keeps this film fresh after many years. It is definitely worth watching repeatedly.
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