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.
13.05.26 WEDNESDAY / 19.30 h
15.05.26 FRIDAY / 19.30 h
opening night
Opening Night
JOHN CASSAVETES. USA. 1977. VOS SPANISH. Color. 144′. DCP.
Int. Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert, Laura Johnson.
A famous theater actress witnesses the death of an admirer. The event causes him a deep discomfort and a series of hallucinations in which the young woman appears to him, that affect the rehearsals and the performances of the work he is working on.
