Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film (2019)

June 5th, 20190h 53min

Documentary
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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.


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