In this film, the aging businessman Dickie asks his wife for a divorce before spending a night with the prostitute Jeannie, who was played by the director's wife, Gena Rowlands.
In a lyrical interlude in this film, a couple dances in the dark to a record of a piano and cello, which abruptly cuts to the loud rock music of a scene in a dance club. At the end of this film, the credits run silently over the final image of an empty staircase. In this film, a gathering breaks up after a man suddenly murmurs, "I think we're making fools of ourselves," after incessantly singing improvised blues songs. In a later scene, that man observes that "nobody has the time to be vulnerable to each other" and parodies his playboy persona by mimicking a robot after resuscitating his married lover from a sleeping pill overdose. This film was shot over a period of six months in the (*) director's house with a group of his friends working as the unpaid crew. In this film, the aging businessman Dickie asks his wife for a divorce before spending a night with the prostitute Jeannie, who was played by the director's wife, Gena Rowlands. For 10 points, name this landmark 1968 film directed, like Shadows and A Woman Under the Influence, by John Cassavetes.
In a lyrical interlude in this film, a couple dances in the dark to a record of a piano and cello, which abruptly cuts to the loud rock music of a scene in a dance club.
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