An Unmarried Woman
When her husband abruptly leaves her for a younger woman, Manhattan wife Erica rebuilds her sense of self and desire, with her therapy sessions woven throughout.
Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Drama 1979 nominee
Erica, a comfortable Manhattan wife and mother, is left without warning when her husband announces he is in love with a younger woman. The film follows her through anger, grief and tentative new intimacy as she reconstructs an independent life and rediscovers her own wishes.
For clinical readers it is valuable for taking a woman's therapy seriously as part of the story rather than as decoration, threading her sessions through the recovery of identity and desire after abandonment. It was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Drama in 1979.
Details
- 1978
- United States
- English
- Film