Another Woman (1988)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 81 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow and Ian Holm
IMDb score:
7,2 (16.158)
Releasedate: 13 October 1988
Another Woman plot
Unable to concentrate at home, author Marion rents an apartment in town to work on her new novel. Her home sits next to a psychiatrist's office, and what Marion hears from a female patient there will profoundly change her life.
Actors and actresses
Marion
Hope
Ken
Lydia
Larry
Kathy
Laura
Marion's Father
Claire
Young Marion's Father
Reviews & comments
Movsin
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As he often does, Allen dabbles in families, with exes, former lovers, children from a previous marriage, brothers, sisters-in-law... and accompanies the puzzle pieces with fitting evergreen music, often accompanied by piano strumming. It's a Woody Allen style, a Woody who here embarks on an almost exclusively psychological journey. He himself doesn't play a role, but the narrative flow is evident.
Mediocre, I think, for the simple reason that it's difficult to keep it going for an hour and a half and keep it interesting without encountering any high points.
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Onderhond
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Ingmar Allen.
I don't know exactly why, but the poster gave me a kind of Bergman vibe. Then the name Nykvist quickly popped up, and after five minutes of lived-in ugliness, the idea had taken root. This is Allen's attempt at a Bergman.
I certainly don't always think Allen is great, but there's usually a certain vibrancy in his films that makes them worth watching. I have no idea if this film could be symbolic of a particular period in his oeuvre, but I don't think I've ever seen such a lifeless film. Thankfully, it's only 80 minutes long, but even that's not a plus.
There's that moment when Holm and Rowlands are celebrating their engagement with their friends. There's a fair number of people at their party, and you get a nice wide shot. It's truly hard to grasp how many ugly browns and grays are hidden in that shot. It's as if all the life and vitality has been sucked out of the film. Now, that does align with the characters and their concerns, but as a young thirty-something, am I allowed to have absolutely no interest in that? After seeing so much soulless whining, I just hope I never end up like that.
Despite some playful flashbacks and dreams, the film never manages to shake off that utterly lifeless image. Complete non-cinema, in my opinion, and by far Allen's worst film I've seen. The only compliment I can give him is that he comes pretty close to Bergman, perhaps even surpasses him.
0.5*
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blurp194
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Another Woman.
One of the last films in my Gene Hackman marathon, and that's because I was a bit apprehensive about it. Woody Allen isn't my thing, to put it briefly.
Fortunately, it's not too bad, the things that always irritate me immensely in almost all of his films—the hyper-nervous stuff, the "dialogue," the music, the deafening smell of Brussels sprouts, Allen himself—all of it is absent here. What remains is a rather flat and depressing film with a somewhat melancholic message that doesn't really impress me, but unimpressed is still a lot better than utterly irritated.
What I was referring to was Hackman's role, which is somewhat small in itself, but also one of the bright spots in the otherwise rather dull narrative, one of the few glimpses of hope in the unbearable darkness of existence. Fitting, actually, though that's unintentional, of course. Well, maybe not that role, but certainly Hackman's casting.
I still can't call it a good film, by the way. Allen does borrow Bergman rather shamelessly, but doesn't quite come close to the depth and breadth of Scandinavian depression that comes with it. And such a banal subject as aging might not have been the best choice.
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