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Cassavetes follows the complicated lives of a group of middle class people living in LA and contains some startlingly raw performances from actors Lynn Carlin and John Marley as married couple Maria and Richard who both commit adultery to escape the misery of their loveless marriage. Richard begins an affair with high-class .. Read more

Starring John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel
Director John Cassavetes
Genres Drama

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Faces

Cassavetes follows the complicated lives of a group of middle class people living in LA and contains some startlingly raw performances from actors Lynn Carlin and John Marley as married couple Maria and Richard who both commit adultery to escape the misery of their loveless marriage. Richard begins an affair with high-class call girl Jeannie Rapp (Gena Rowlands, The Skeleton Key) and tells his wife that he wants a divorce. Maria, spurned by his rejection, falls into the arms of a carefree young drifter, Chet (Seymour Cassel, The Life Aquatic, In The Soup) but the affair only leaves her feeling suicidal.

Starring John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel
Director John Cassavetes
Studio OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Certificate DVD Certificate TBC.gif
Genres Drama
Language English
Released DVD: 12 Sep 2005
Production year: 1968
Format DVD
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  • 4 stars out of 5

    This challenging, gritty example of 1960s New American cinema from John Cassavetes combines Method acting with the cinematic techniques of the French New Wave. The marriage of Californian liberals John Marley and Lynn Carlin is on the rocks and after yet another row he storms out to spend the night with prostitute Gena Rowlands, while she finds solace in the arms of disco-dancing hippy Seymour Cassel. The picture originally lasted six hours and there are still places where some judicious cutting would not go amiss. But the improvised performances are exceptional, with Marley and Rowlands every bit as impressive as the Oscar-nominated Carlin and Cassel. Cassavetes's screenplay also received a nomination.

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  • Cassavetes' first independent film since Shadows - made after the severely compromised, if fascinating, studio movies... read more on Time Out

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  • 7 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars

    Tedious drivel.

    There is a school of thought that believes that depicting a group of drunken self-indulgent slobs jumping about and making a lot of noise can be made into worthwhile cinema provided it is in black and white, with a hand-held camera, inaudible repetitive dialogue and inconsequential plot development. Although I am no fan of the brain-dead vacuity of Hollywood, this type of film is hardly an interesting alternative. Pretentious nonsense from start to middle (of course I didn't finish it ....)

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  • 1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Awful

    Please don't bother with this one it is dreadful

    Nuff Said!

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    • Faces
      Cassavetes follows the complicated lives of a group of middle class people living in LA and contains some startlingly raw performances from actors Lynn Carlin and John Marley as married couple Maria and Richard who both commit adultery to escape the misery of their loveless marriage. Richard begins ...