Another Woman

• Gena Rowlands: Marion Post
• Mia Farrow: Hope
• Ian Holm: Ken
• Blythe Danner: Lydia
• Gene Hackman: Larry Lewis
• Martha Plimpton: Laura
• John Houseman: Marion's father
• Betty Buckley: Kathy
• Francis Conroy: Lynn
• Kenneth Welsh: Donald
• Harris Yulin: Paul

Another woman is an American film directed by Woody Allen from 1988.

Action

Marion Post rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book can. Indeed, it is not there as calm as Marion wanted. Through an air shaft they can overhear everything that is spoken in the neighboring apartment. This is the room of a psychiatrist. When she hears a young woman tell that it 's more difficult for her to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on their own lives. You only performs a loveless marriage and denies her feelings for Larry, she loves anything more than her husband Ken. She is a woman who suppressed their feelings or hides from himself. After a few experiences she begins to understand how her unemotional behavior also affects other over the others and themselves. Finally, she discovers that her husband is cheating. Thus it is another woman and separates from her husband and his own self-deception.

Trivia

• Originally Mia Farrow was to play the character of Marion Post. However, since she was pregnant at that time, she could no longer do so. So Gena Rowlands came to this role. However, Mia Farrow then got the role of Hope, the young woman at the psychiatrist.
• This film was the first of four collaborations between Woody Allen and Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer Sven Nykvist preferred. The other three films are New York Stories (1989 ), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Celebrity - Beautiful, rich, famous (1998).
• This film was the last appearance of John Houseman as an actor in a movie.

Criticism

• Much of " Another woman " remembers it has often been stated, in Bergman's films. But apart from that, the film is mainly characterized by the compelling force of his leading lady. [ ... ] A powerful yet quiet, level-headed film, which certainly is one of the best Allen. - Ulrich Behrens on www.filmzentrale.com

• With many flashbacks narrated, high-caliber psychological study à la Ingmar Bergman or John Cassavetes with just a few Allen'schen jokes. ( TV Guide prism)

• Lexicon of international film: The sensitive, multi-layered portrait of a woman and her life crisis, just as clearly as vain the works of Ingmar Bergman emulating, so that the film, despite the distinct qualities as "second- hand " effect.