The cycle dedicated to filmmaker John Cassavetes and actress Gena Rowlands ends. The murder of a Chinese bookmaker, converts it into a cult film, is a crime drama with a complex central character played by Ben Gazzara, regular collaborator of the filmmaker. The other titles that make up the cycle are the portraits of three of the unforgettable characters that Cassavetes built with his partner Gena Rowlands, in a union that goes far beyond the relationship between creator and muse, eixe terme so misogin, with which it has sometimes been qualified. Sarah Lawson currents of love, Myrtle Gordon in Opening Night and Gloria Swenson a Gloria, they constitute some of the most complex female portraits ever seen on screen. I, certainly, Rowlands is as creative as Cassavetes, because it is the fusion of their respective talents, the almost suicidal delivery of the actress and the invasive and intimate camera of the director, the one that builds the meaning of the story and the identity of the character that seems to emerge in real time before our eyes, with an intensity that is unrepeatable and impossible to forget.
08.05.26 FRIDAY / 18.00 h
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The murder of a Chinese bookmaker
The Killing of A Chinese Bookie
JOHN CASSAVETES. USA. 1976. VOS SPANISH. Color. 135′. DCP.
Int. Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel, Robert Phillips, Morgan Woodward, John Kullers.
The owner of a Los Angeles strip club incurs a significant gambling debt with the mafia, who offers to pay her off in exchange for murdering a Chinese bookie.
