FTC continues its film series with NYC at its center. New York City has been a setting and subject matter for movies since the art form began more than 100 years ago. Over the next 10 months, the Fairfield Theatre Company's "Martini And A Movie" series will screen comedies and dramas - old and new - that show us NYC in all of its glory and that bring to life memorable characters who could only exist there.
Few movies have ever done a better job of showing a person struggling through a major life crisis — sudden divorce — and emerging at the other end than this 1978 Paul Mazursky made-in-Manhattan classic. It’s hard to think of a meatier role that’s ever been written for an American film actress and Jill Clayburgh plays it to the hilt. Mazursky had seen lots of his women friends going through the same experience and decided to explore divorce and its aftermath in the wake of the feminist revolution (which had erupted only a few years earlier). The magic of “An Unmarried Woman” is in the way that Erica’s complex emotional journey is made so lucid and so entertaining (and so unexpectedly funny) through the collaboration of Mazursky and Clayburgh.
"High comedy of a sharp, bitter kind, and Michael Murphy is fine as the weasel husband named Martin, but Miss Clayburgh is nothing less than extraordinary in what is the performance of the year to date."
NY TIMES, 1978
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