A Special New York Screening of 'An Unmarried Woman'

Co-hosts Lily Rabe and Zoe Ruffner led a conversation about the film’s portrait of self-reinvention in 1970s Manhattan. The film is especially personal for Rabe, who reflected on her mother Jill Clayburgh’s performance as Erica — a woman rebuilding her life after the collapse of her marriage — and her character’s emotional complexity.

An Unmarried Woman has come to be seen as a defining work of New York cinema — not only for its portrayal of identity and independence, but for the way it captures the city itself. Mazursky’s Manhattan is a place where anonymity and intimacy exist side by side, and where endings often give way to new beginnings.