Rachel, Rachel
W is for Woodward
Screening on Film
Screening on Film
Directed by Paul Newman.
With Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Estelle Parsons.
US, 1968, 35mm, color, 101 min.
Print source: HFA
With Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Estelle Parsons.
US, 1968, 35mm, color, 101 min.
Print source: HFA
While other directors were impressing with their flash and technique in the 1960s, actor Paul Newman chose to make a small, understated, and very sensitive film for his directorial debut. Joanne Woodward delivers a restrained and poignant portrayal of a lonely, sexually inhibited schoolteacher who struggles with the frustration of caring for her widowed mother in a small Connecticut town as she tries to emerge from her shell.
