Love Streams

Nov 18, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Ariel LeBeau |Mia Lee Vicino |Love Streams

Early on in A Woman Under the Influence, Gena Rowlands’ Mabel Longhetti sputters and grimaces as she impatiently urges her mother out the door to take her children off to school. No more than two minutes after they’ve left, she peers out the window with anticipation. “Boy, I can’t wait for the kids to come home,” she sighs.

Aug 20, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Mia Lee Vicino |Mitchell Beaupre |John Cassavetes |Love Streams

“Love is a stream. It’s continuous. It doesn’t stop.” In 1981’s Love Streams, Gena Rowlands (pronounced “Jenna”) delivers these lines with her trademark intensity, her trademark blonde hair wildly framing her face, her trademark hand acting punctuating each sentence. The intimate familial drama marks the last collaboration between her and her actor-writer-director husband John Cassavetes, before his untimely passing in 1989 at 59 years old.