Rowlands is playing Mabel, an exuberantly alive woman of great sensitivities whose husband, Nicky, loves her deeply but doesn't understand her.
Mabel is struggling harder because her purchase on everyday life has begun to badly slip, bewildering them both. Her love for Nicky and their children feels boundless.
Working with Cassavetes, Rowlands was helping find a new way to make American cinema, as they explore the depths of human relationships and emotional turmoil.
Rowland had an incredibly expressive, near-elastic face and equally extraordinary control of it, and the quicksilver shifts she uses here are unexpected and destabilizing.
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