Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film (2019)

06/05/2019 (DE) • Documentary • 53m

Overview

An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with her husband, legendary director John Cassavetes (1929-89), she lived an unusual life beyond the dream factory, a life in which reality and fiction were so perfectly intertwined that it made possible films that still today seem incredibly real.

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film (2019)

06/05/2019 (DE) • 53m

Documentary

Overview

An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with her husband, legendary director John Cassavetes (1929-89), she lived an unusual life beyond the dream factory, a life in which reality and fiction were so perfectly intertwined that it made possible films that still today seem incredibly real.

Top Billed Cast

Eva Gosciejewicz

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Meta Shaw Stevens

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Michael Ventura

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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Keywords

husband wife relationship

cinema on cinema

movie business

biography

co-workers relationship

portrait of an artist

artistic couple

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