A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

USA
Feature Film
Writer/Director: John Cassavetes
Cinematographers: Mitch Breit & Caleb Deschanel
Cast: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Lady Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes

Cassavetes’s remarkable film – a raw and painfully uncompromising yet often tender and beautiful depiction of mental illness, chronicling a married couple’s attempts to survive each other’s failings – proves, with Falk’s truly stunning performance and Rowlands’s unsettling turn, to be an agonising masterpiece. Iain.Stott