A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
Wednesday, 24 November
Doors: 6:30pm Guest Speaker: 7:15pm
Vancity Film Centre, 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver
Regular admission: $11/$9 senior or student
(includes $2 Vancity Film Centre membership)
John Cassavetes // USA 1974 // 155 min
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Katherine Cassavetes, Lady Rowlands, Matthew Cassel.
One of the seminal films of the seventies, John Cassavetes’ wrenching dissection of a blue-collar marriage is a devastating tale of ordinary madness. Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands) is a housewife and mother, loving and devoted to her family but ill-equipped for the long hours of isolation and solitude that come with the job. The film concerns two betrayals in Mabel’s marriage: the first, a drunken one-night stand; the second, a retaliatory act that threatens to tear the family apart. Gena Rowlands’ portrait of a woman plunged into derangement is one of the most extraordinary performances in all of cinema, while Cassavetes – Rowlands’ husband– described this as his “most optimistic” film.
This screening is presented in conjunction with Vancouver Opera’s production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, December 4 – 11th, another tragedy of marriage, family, and madness. Set in the brooding lowlands of Scotland, Lucia di Lammermoor’s heartbreaking drama of fatal family dynamics and its portrait of a fragile innocent woman are profoundly affecting. Passion, romance, filial love, loyalty and betrayal are all expressed in this exquisite bel canto score.
A Woman Under the Influence will be introduced by film critic and Vancity Theatre programming coordinator Tom Charity, whose critical biography John Cassavetes: Lifeworks was published by Omnibus Press in 2001.
Seating is limited. This special event continues a series of co-presentations between Vancouver Opera and the Vancity Theatre.
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