Faces (1968)

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Directed by

John Cassavetes

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John Marley
Richard Forst

Gena Rowlands
Jeannie Rapp

Lynn Carlin
Maria Forst

Fred Draper
Freddie Draper

Seymour Cassel
Chet

Val Avery
Jim McCarthy

Dorothy Gulliver
Florence

Joanne Moore Jordan
Louise Draper

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17 years, 2 months ago at Feb 19 19:41

Rollo Tomasi

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A truly immersive slice of experimental cinema. I don't remember ever sampling performances as genuinely captivating and realistic as John Marley, Gena Rowlands, and Lynn Carling were serving up here. I'd be the first to admit not always getting what Casavettes is trying to say with his films but the director totally nails this one.

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John Cassavetes puts a disintegrating marriage under the microscope in the searing Faces. Shot in high-contrast 16 mm black and white, the film follows the futile attempts of the captain of industry Richard (John Marley) and his wife, Maria (Lynn Carlin), to escape the anguish of their empty relationship in the arms of others. Featuring astonishingly nervy performances from Marley, Carlin, and Cassavetes regulars Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel, Faces confronts modern alienation and the battle of the sexes with a brutal honesty and compassion rarely matched in cinema.

Release date: 17 October 1968
UPC: 013023018099

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