Another Woman

Too often sidelined in both Hackman’s and Allen’s filmographies, Another Woman is a taut, interior psychodrama with a quietly accumulating force. Gena Rowlands plays a philosophy professor whose tightly ordered life begins to crack when she overhears another woman’s (Mia Farrow) therapy sessions—an intrusion that opens a floodgate of buried regrets. In a key supporting role, Gene Hackman brings warmth and melancholy as the ex-lover she lets slip away—a turn so quietly affecting it throws the film’s emotional geometry into stark relief. Shot by Bergman collaborator Sven Nykvist in a palette of softened light and muted space, Another Woman is a haunting study in emotional containment and what seeps through.