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Friday, May 2, 2025
7:00 PM (147 mins)
BAMPFA
A Woman Under the Influence
35mm Archival Print
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.
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
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