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Another Woman is a 1988 Woody Allen film about an emotionally reticent woman. It stars Gena Rowlands and Mia Farrow and does not feature Allen in an acting role.
Marion is a middle-aged college professor. She heads the philosophy department of a university and specializes in German existential philosophy. During a summer sabbatical, she embarks to write a book. However, loud construction has begun next door to her office. She rents a small apartment for quiet privacy. A psychiatrist's practice is next door. Through the vent she hears his sessions with patients. At first she is guiltily hesitant to listen. Slowly she becomes fascinated with the intellectual existentialism of their problems. She's particularly drawn to a young pregnant woman, Hope, played by Mia Farrow. The doctor theorizes that in Hope's subconscious, she is sabotaging her own life to gradually deem it worthy of suicide. She's married a man she doesn't love and conceived a child she does not want. These actions delude Hope that she's making positive strides against her depression while creating permanent excuses to blame for it. Overhearing the therapeutic regression of the psychiatric patients compels Marion to examine her own life. Her parents' austerity and great expectations of her have emotionally crippled her from enjoying life and connecting with her husband and friends.
After a brutal attack leaves Lisa Temple without her memory, her husband declares that she is another woman. She begins to find out just what that means when she begins to try to recover that lost memory. The life that emerges is one of a bitter and depressed woman who who has apparently alienated everyone, including her husband. He has already filed for divorce. This new woman that she has become though, convinces him to put his plans on hold. As she rebuilds her life Lisa and husband fall in love again. There is danger lurking however, and one last angry memory waiting to surface. Will their love survive? Written by CD
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself. Written by Leon Wolters







