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Plot Summary
The disintegration of a marriage is dissected in John Cassavetes’ searing Faces. Shot in high-contrast 16 mm black and white, the film follows the futile attempts of captain of industry Richard (John Marley) and his wife, Maria (Lynn Carlin), to escape the anguish of their empty marriage in the arms of others. Featuring astonishingly powerful, nervy performances from Marley, Carlin, and Cassavetes regulars Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel, Faces confronts suburban alienation and the battle of the sexes with a brutal honesty and compassion rarely matched in cinema.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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89%- Reviews Counted: 18
- Fresh: 16
- Rotten: 2
- Average Rating: 7.2/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: The movie is very blunt and relentless, sometimes redundant, at moments nearly unintelligible, but the entire effect is as of a high-strung, very bright documentary about the way things are.
Fresh: Faces is the sort of film that makes you want to grab people by the neck and drag them into the theater and shout: 'Here!'
Fresh: John Marley and Lynn Carlin play the conflicted couple with a raw emotional reality that is uncomfortable to watch and impossible to forget.
Fresh: Cassavetes was interested in actors and their freak-show intensities, and their performances give his films a hyper-real quality.
Customer Reviews
Its a brilliant film… at times daunting
The experience of watching Faces has virtually nothing to do with the schematic plot description above. Shot on black-and-white 16mm film with a constantly roving camera and a soundtrack of overlapping, occasionally out-of-sync dialogue, the movie has a raw and at times near-unwatchable immediacy. What emerges from the series of encounters it depicts is less a narrative than a succession of alternating intensities… PLEASE BUY!
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