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A night to remember

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John Cassavetes's long and extraordinary drama, his response to All About Eve, is the centrepiece of a BFI Southbank mini-season of the independent director's work, which includes A Woman Under the Influence, Faces and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

It has his real-life wife, Gena Rowlands, as an actress increasingly fraught as the opening night of a new play approaches, driven to ever Dazzling as Rowlands's performance is, the film is almost suffocatingly long, even though its ideas about actors, acting and real life are among Cassavetes's most intriguing. more eccentric behaviour as she contemplates her own inner demons.

Her co-star (Cassavetes), the playwright (Joan Blondell) and her director (Ben Gazzara) believe the first night will have to be postponed.

Opening Night
Cert: 15

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