Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film (2019)

7.2/10 53 min 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.

Cast

Eva Gosciejewicz

Self - Narrator (voice)

Gena Rowlands

Self

Jonas Mekas

Self

John Cassavetes

Self (archive footage)

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