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starring: Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner, Gene Hackmandirected by: Woody Allen
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0027616854179
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: June 05, 2001
Running Time: 81 minutes
Sales Rank: 22720
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: November 18, 1988
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Amazon.com:
This underrated film is by far Woody Allen's most satisfying I-wish-I-were-Ingmar Bergman movie, and in its elegantly constrained fashion it teems with imagination--not to mention a glorious cast. Gena Rowlands plays a philosophy professor who, subletting an apartment as a writing office, finds that the confidences murmured to her psychiatrist neighbor are audible through the air vents. In particular, the fears and desperation of a younger, very pregnant woman (Mia Farrow) trigger a stream of reveries regarding the professor's own life, past romances, and troubled family. Some of these seem to be straightforward memories (though we take too much for granted, and that's part of the point); others are theatrically stylized, with different actors taking over roles initiated by others (Rowlands sometimes appears in long-ago flashbacks, trading off with Margaret Marx as her younger self).
Allen had, like his protagonist, recently turned 50, and the sense of personal stocktaking here is much more compelling--and much less self-indulgent--than in a lot of his other films. Surely the magisterial presence of Rowlands made a big difference. She's in excellent company, including Ian Holm as the prof's tightly wrapped husband, Sandy Dennis as the dear old actress friend who hates her guts, and John Houseman as her widower father. Like Lloyd Nolan's in Hannah and Her Sisters and Keye Luke's in Alice, Houseman's turned out to be a valedictory performance. We cherish it--along with the inspired casting of David Ogden Stiers as, in effect, the younger John Houseman. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One of Allen's Better Films
At a friends today, she had Erik Satie on the CD player and Gymnopedie No.3 magically filled the room. Haunting and beautiful, this has to be one of my favourite pieces. Written for piano, it was the renowned Debussy who orchestrated the music, adding to its charm. Then it came to me, what film features this wonderful piece of music?...suddenly clear: Another Woman, Directed and Written by Woody Allen. (1988)
Out of a slew of Allen's so-called "serious" films, this is without a doubt ... Read More
Rating: - The unexamined life is not worth living.
Another Woman (1988) is among Woody Allen's most underrated and overlooked films. It is a powerful and intelligent film--a "searing adult drama" (Leonard Maltin)--from a director at the top of his form. It tells the story of Marion (Gena Rowlands), an emotionally reticent college professor on the verge of fifty. She heads the philosophy department of a university and her area is in German existential philosophy. While on sabbatical to write a book, Marion sublets a small flat to focus on her writing, ... Read More
Rating: - Truly Special
Woody Allen's best drama, not a laugh in it (none intended) Outstanding performances. Not for everyone; only introspective, serious film viewers. Heavily influenced by Bergman, every scene is a gem. Nothing short of brilliant
Rating: - The unbearable lightness of being!
If we had to establish the film that demarks the beginning of a new visual refinement and major dramatic weight, we necessarily should turn our eyes to Interiors, the critics by then overlooked this unexpected turning point in his artistic trajectory, branded him of pretending to be the mirror's image of Ingmar Bergman,
The three essential films that worked out as fundamental and previous steps to reach this peak were Hannah and her sisters, Days of Radio and September, and having ... Read More
Rating: - Emotional, raw and powerful drama
This is not a Woody Allen comedy; it is one of his better dramas, with the superb Gena Rowlands making the most of her screen time as a woman in a marital crisis who happens to overhear another woman's crisis in discussion with her psychiatrist.
Very emotional, poignant and raw material.
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