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- 1968
- R
- Continental Distributing
- 2 h 10 m
- 1968
- R
- Continental Distributing
- 2 h 10 m
Summary A middle-aged man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other.
Directed By: John Cassavetes
Written By: John Cassavetes
- 1968
- R
- Continental Distributing
- 2 h 10 m
- 1968
- R
- Continental Distributing
- 2 h 10 m
Faces
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Summary A middle-aged man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other.
Directed By: John Cassavetes
Written By: John Cassavetes
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
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6% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
88
94% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
This is the world through the idiosyncratic eye of Cassavetes, which is both all-forgiving and inexhaustibly, passionately nosy. [28 Jun 1991, p.F8]
John Cassavetes' 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!" It would be a triumphant shout.
Stripped to its bones, Faces is the elegantly simple story of two equal and opposite betrayals.
The plot is bare and a little cliched, but the film's dramatic scenes, usually shot with a roving camera and lighted in fairly crude ways, are realistically, almost voyeuristicly, staged. [04 Jul 1991, p.13]
Though it seems even spottier today than it did in '68, Cassavetes' most acclaimed work rebounds impressively after a near-unbearable opening half-hour. [29 Mar 1996]
Cassavetes didn’t improvise, and Faces was scripted, but many of the film’s scenes still have the feel of conversations happening right in front of you, with all the imperfections and digressions and looseness of the everyday.
Faces is a long, long (at least an hour too long) look at a 36-hour splitup in the 14-year marriage of a middle-class couple. At least John Cassavetes, who also wrote the screenplay, describes them as middle-class.
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