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- 1977
- PG-13
- Faces Distribution
- 2 h 24 m
- 1977
- PG-13
- Faces Distribution
- 2 h 24 m
Summary An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
Directed By: John Cassavetes
Written By: John Cassavetes
- 1977
- PG-13
- Faces Distribution
- 2 h 24 m
- 1977
- PG-13
- Faces Distribution
- 2 h 24 m
Opening Night
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6.4
Summary An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
Directed By: John Cassavetes
Written By: John Cassavetes
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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27% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
69
67% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
27% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Cassavetes’s most cleverly constructed film is also a definitive lesson in the death-defying, all-consuming art of acting, proof of a madness beyond the Method.
Rowlands takes the movie by the throat in the dramatic, onstage sequences, just as Brando would have done, yet she’s equally compelling in the film’s smaller moments.
At once a lament to the ravages of age and an examination of those tiny foibles which separate reality from dramatic artifice, it’s a baffling and intricate film which, although light on conventional pleasures, still manages to provoke and beguile.
For fans of Cassavetes, Opening night is a must see. As per usual it features a superb cast.
Opening Night is a reminder of what has made Mr. Cassavetes's films so appealing, and of what can make them so maddening, too. For all its length -- nearly two and three-quarter hours -- it's a relatively thin example of the director's work, but a mischievous and inviting one, too.
Another of Cassavetes' puzzling, personal, neurotic, and often brilliant productions that would have benefited from editing with a scythe.
There is no attempt to explain why an actress would go to pieces when she discovers a point of identity with her role; nor why an actress who is constantly loony, drunk, abusive or all three would not be understudied, let alone replaced. It should be noted that the play-within-the-movie is even worse than the movie-about-the-play. [14 Apr 1978, p.18]
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