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- It currently holds a 96% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 27 reviews; the consensus states: " Opening Night is as dense and difficult as one would expect from John Cassavetes, but even the director's detractors will be unable to deny the power of Gena Rowlands' performance."
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Oct 10, 2018 · Seen especially through the lens of today’s actress-led, woman-on-the-verge-of-immolation horrors such as Annihilation and the upcoming Suspiria, Opening Night is a mischievously delightful dip...
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Mar 27, 2024 · For a film that was panned at its own premiere, John Cassavetes’s 1977 Opening Night is experiencing a remarkable extended life.
Mar 26, 2024 · “Opening Night,” John Cassavetes’s understatedly stylish 1977 movie about an actress struggling with midlife ennui, has been reimagined as a musical by the Belgian director Ivo van Hove, and...
Mar 27, 2024 · Opening Night review: Sheridan Smith exquisitely self-destructs in weird meta-West End musical. Rufus Wainwright’s songs reach new emotional heights, Smith’s performance is radiant – but Ivo...
- Alice Saville
Mar 27, 2024 · Review at a glance. This dismally muddled, self-important, furtively misogynist musical about an actress going to pieces squanders the talents of everyone involved, even breaking Sheridan Smith ...
Opening Night is exactly the sort challenging film that we should consider when examining the adventurous breadth of a genre that cannot, and should not, be nailed down by any simple definition...
Oct 18, 1991 · John Cassavetes’ “Opening Night” tells the story of an alcoholic actress going through the final agony of bottoming out, while surrounded by people whose lives she is making impossible, and who are not nearly as angry with her as they should be.
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