A Woman Under the Influence

  • Friday, May 2, 2025

    7:00 PM (147 mins)
    BAMPFA

    SOLD OUT

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.



A Woman Under the Influence

John Cassavetes
United States, 1974

35mm Archival Print

featuring

Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands,

John Cassavetes’s masterpiece retains the power to unnerve with its raw, often harrowing depiction of a blue-collar Los Angeles family on the rocks. Gena Rowlands’s performance as Mabel Longhetti, wife of everyman Nick (Peter Falk) and mother of three, stands as a virtually unmatched tour de force. As a woman struggling desperately to reconcile who she thinks she should be—as wife, mother, lover, friend—with the anarchic spirit she really is, Mabel is the kind of intense, complex, and above all, deeply human role that is still all-too-rare in Hollywood. 

Paul Malcolm, UCLA Film & Television Archive

FILM DETAILS

Screenwriter

  • John Cassavetes

Cinematographer

  • Mitchell Breit
  • Al Ruban

Print Info

  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 147 mins

Source

  • UCLA Film & Television Archive

Permission

  • American Genre Film Archive

Additional Info

  • Restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation and GUCCI

Event Accessibility

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