Winners & Losers: The Woman at the Store

...exciting to watch, true to the original story, excellently acted ... and skilfully edited —a thoroughly polished piece that evokes more than it portrays and is, I predict, a certain candidate for this year's Feltex Award.

– Writer Alexander Fry in The Listener, 22 March 1975, page 30

A week after filming was completed, two days under the scheduled twelve, the first batch of film was back from Australia. Ian and Roger were delighted with it. The colour and lighting were pure and bright, very New Zealand, very Katherine Mansfield.

– Writer Louise Callan, in an article on the making of The Woman at the Store, Thursday magazine, 24 October 1974

I thought Ian Mune as good as ever, Jeremy Stephens superb, Ilona Rodgers a little too poised perhaps and Niccola Sanderson very good indeed.

– Listener reviewer Gordon McLauchlan, 19 April 1975, page 41

Trouble is I've been left too much alone...

– The woman at the store (Anne Flannery)

Hopefully this film will make the NZBC willing to finance a big package ... we would like to see this as the pilot for a series of New Zealand short stories.

– Co-director Ian Mune, in an article on the making of The Woman at the Store, Thursday magazine, 1974, 24 October 1974

If Derek [Ian Mune and Roger Donaldson's previous drama] was to say we’re here, The Woman at the Store was to say it so even officialdom had to notice.

– Ian Mune, to Roger Horrocks, as part of the New Zealand Film Makers at the Auckland Art Gallery series, 7 February 1985

There is no twilight in our New Zealand days, but a curious half-hour when everything appears grotesque — it frightens — as though the savage spirit of the country walked abroad and sneered at what it saw.

– A famous sentence from Katherine Mansfield's original story A Woman at the Store

He's away...shearing...been gone for a month or more.

– The woman at the store (Anne Flannery) on where her husband is