Another Woman
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| Directed by | Woody Allen |
| Produced by | Robert Greenhut |
| Written by | Woody Allen |
| Starring | Mia Farrow Gena Rowlands Ian Holm |
| Cinematography | Sven Nykvist |
| Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1988 |
| Running time | 84 minutes |
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Another Woman is a 1988 Woody Allen film about an emotionally reticent woman. It stars Gena Rowlands and Mia Farrow and does not feature Allen in an acting role.
Marion is a middle-aged college professor. She heads the philosophy department of a university and specializes in German existential philosophy. During a summer sabbatical, she embarks to write a book. However, loud construction has begun next door to her office. She rents a small apartment for quiet privacy. A psychiatrist's practice is next door. Through the vent she hears his sessions with patients. At first she is guiltily hesitant to listen, yet becomes fascinated with the intellectual existentialism of their problems. She's particularly drawn to a young pregnant woman, Hope, played by Mia Farrow. The doctor theorizes that in the woman's subconscious, she has vowed to sabotage her life to gradually deem it worthy of suicide. She's married a man she doesn't love and conceived and carries a child she does not want. Overhearing the therapeutic regression of the psychiatric patients compels Marion to examine her own life. Her parents' emotional aloofness and great expectations of her have emotionally crippled her from enjoying life and connecting with her husband and friends. This movie is a philosophical mystery of the soul.
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