Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film (2019)

Plot Summary

An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with her husband, legendary director John Cassavetes (1929-89), she lived an unusual life beyond the dream factory, a life in which reality and fiction were so perfectly intertwined that it made possible films that still today seem incredibly real.

Full Cast & Characters

Eva Gosciejewicz

Self - Narrator (voice)

Gena Rowlands

Self

Greg Gorman

Self

Jonas Mekas

Self

Meta Shaw Stevens

Self

Michael Ferris

Self

Michael Ventura

Self

Ray Carney

Self

Robert Forrest

Self

John Cassavetes

Self (archive footage)

Director & Crew

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