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Rowlands’ searing performance as a mentally unstable housewife is almost too much to bear. Cassavetes offers us a portrait of mental illness as a family disease in which all the well-meaning relatives are hapless players. The filmmaker’s unhurried style allows the characters’ psychic pain to seep into the film’s sprocket holes.
This article appears in May 3 • 2013.
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