Theres an odd connection between these seemingly unrelated movies.
These are the founding tenets of filmmaking established by latedirector John Cassavetes, lifelong husband of Gena Rowlands.
This family tradition draws a bridge between his 1974 filmA Woman Under the Influenceand his sons adaptation ofThe Notebook.
In the hands of another director,The Notebookcould have been a formulaic melodrama with little appeal.
Adapted from Nicholas Sparks' novel of the same name, The Notebook is a romantic drama film that follows a couple who fall in love during the 1940s. Duke, an older man, recounts the story of two young lovers whose lives never lined up quite right to a fellow patient in his nursing home. Reading from the notebook pages, the movie keeps flashing from the present into the past to tell the story of the one that got away.
