Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman sublets an apartment. Because of an architectural quirk, she discovers she can overhear her neighbor's conversations. Since he is a ( psychiatrist, she finds herself eavesdropping, against her will, on the high, mysterious emotions pouring forth from his consulting room...
...Another Woman is the work of the mature Allen, who has aspired to Bergmanesque seriousness and, after Interiors and September, has finally achieved it. His film is a variation on the master's masterpiece, Persona, but it has what Allen's other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit. Not that there are laugh lines in Another Woman. But the subtlety of its structure and the tender irony with which it contemplates an emotionally guarded woman being drawn into confrontation with her past demonstrate lucidity and compassion of an order virtually unknown in American movies...
Marion (played by Gena Rowlands in a clear, precise, controlled performance) is a woman who has willed the emotional confusion out of her life. A philosopher (she has taken this second apartment as a quiet place to write a book), she is married to a prosperous surgeon who makes no unreasonable demands on her time or emotions. Why then is she drawn to a particular voice from the next room? Probably because change has opened a breach in her defenses, and she recognizes in the speaker a voice she long ago stilled in herself. Actually it belongs to a woman...
...pursuing Hope, Marion is, of course, also seeking self-knowledge. For this woman is her obverse double, embracing the mess and confusion Marion has spent her life avoiding. We never learn what troubles Hope. She is more device than character. But the chase diverts Marion still further from her habitual paths, opening her to chance encounters with figures from her past, who in turn trigger memories and fantasies that make her see how she has ducked life's embrace. She has turned a best friend into a bitterly disappointed acquaintance; pregnancy into abortion; what might have been a passionate, lifesaving...
...Sleds insist they are not racists. But, they say, they are afraid that the Sleds may be followed by other black families, that white residents will move, then property values will plummet, and the neighborhood will deteriorate. "I'm afraid of what could happen," said one 75-year-old woman. Until 1972 she and her husband lived in Austin, a Chicago suburb that went from predominantly white to predominantly black. "We had to sell our home for nothing," she said. "What happens if this whole doggone neighborhood gets up and leaves? We're too old to move again." She does...