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Mental Major 
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TITLE |
Another Woman (1988) |
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DISABILITY |
Mental
Psychiatry |
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NOTES |
Don't
confuse with TV film of 1994. |
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A
philosopher (Rowlands) disciplines herself to write a book.
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One of the
means she uses is to rent an office. But through |
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the
ventilation duct in her room she can overhear the |
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conversations in a psychiatrist's office below. At first she tries |
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to muffle
the distraction with cushions but then gives in to her |
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What she
hears only serves to enhance the complications in |
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She is
married to a divorcee with a grown up daughter, she's |
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pursued by
another man, and her brother is getting divorced. |
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With the
gentle, detailed style of Allen and a superb cast the |
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Her big
mistake is to follow one of the patients who she is |
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concerned
about only to discover when they come face to |
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face that
she is an old friend. |
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The woman
invites Rowlands to meet her husband but then |
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because the
husband listens attentively to Rowlands |
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becomes
insanely jealous. |
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This close
examination of people's paranoia has been |
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compared to
early Bergman, and one has to say this is done |
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Notes
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