An Unmarried Woman

Screening as part of The Divorced Women’s Film Festival curated by writer Haley Mlotek for the release of her new memoir “No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce”. 

The screening will be introduced by Haley Mlotek and a special guest. 

“This was the movie I watched the most when I was first divorced, and I still revisit it as often as I can. Pretty much everything about An Unmarried Woman lends itself to repeat viewings, particularly Jill Clayburgh’’s performance, but lately I like to pay special attention to Dr. Penelope Russianoff, who plays a therapist in the film (Claudia Weill recommended her to Paul Mazursky) much like the therapist she was in real life.” —Haley Mlotek

One woman’s journey of self-discovery brings about a warmly human cultural conversation about female liberation, in this wonderfully frank, funny chronicle of changing 1970s sexual politics by Paul Mazursky. When her husband of sixteen years abruptly leaves her for a younger woman, Manhattan gallery worker Erica (a fantastic, Oscar-nominated Jill Clayburgh in her defining role) finds herself alone and adrift—but also newly empowered to explore her needs and desires as she tests the waters of a new relationship with a charismatic artist (Alan Bates). Candidly addressing issues of sex, intimacy, loneliness, and divorce from an unabashedly feminist perspective, An Unmarried Woman makes the simple but radical assertion that a woman’s most important relationship is the one she has with herself.

Read more about NO FAULT here. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Haley Mlotek is a writer, editor, and organizer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Nation, Bookforum, The Paris Review, Columbia Journalism Review, Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Hazlitt, and n+1, among others. She is a founding member of the Freelance Solidarity Project in the National Writers Union, teaches in the English and Journalism departments at Concordia University, and is the editorial lead at Feeld. Previously, Mlotek was the deputy editor of SSENSE, the style editor of MTV News, the editor of The Hairpin, and the publisher of WORN Fashion Journal.

*Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Picture – 1979