Noite de Estreia

Um drama psicológico do meio teatral sobre uma atriz de sucesso que tem dificuldade em assumir plenamente a personagem de uma mulher afetada pelo avançar da idade. E sobre um grupo de pessoas que colaboram com ela na peça em questão. O realizador e argumentista John Cassavetes é teatral e simples na imagem. Concebe os personagens com clareza e apoia-se fortemente nas cores dos interiores em que o filme se passa. O coração do filme é o desempenho brilhante de Gena Rowlands, que faz com que seja literalmente um prazer fetichista o voyeurismo no complicado estado mental e psicológico da sua personagem. Uma obra-prima psicológica para os amantes do cinema e do teatro! (06/07/2004)

Cassavetes works excellently with the audience. Thanks to the intertwining of the main character's real life with the role she is portraying, which is mentally destroying her and against which she is trying to defend herself, we are constantly kept in suspense through real theater performances, rehearsals, and glimpses into the personal life of the aging actress. We, in my case, try to recognize who is actually speaking to us (I was holding my breath) during this tension. Is it the real woman-actress, trying to cope with the character she is playing and thus also dealing with herself? Or are these just prescribed words from her part (which, by the way, the author of the play - also an aging woman - could be speaking)? Is it an instant improvisation or rehearsed words? Although the ending is not as catastrophic as the previous almost two and a half hours, Cassavetes as a director and actor and Gena Rowlands deserve the utmost. (10/06/2013)

John Cassavetes, the uncrowned king of the American independent scene, gives a glimpse into the inner workings of an ageing stage actress who doesn't have to fight any inner demons, but herself. And it's 144 minutes long, so if you don't feel beforehand that the subject matter is something for you, you'd better keep your hands off Premiere. [KVIFF 2022] (23/07/2022)