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Original title

Faces

Year

1968

Running time

130 min.

Country

United States

Director

John Cassavetes

Screenwriter

John Cassavetes

Cast

Music

Jack Ackerman

Cinematography

Al Ruban (B&W)

Producer

The Walter Reade Organization. Distributor: Continental Distributing

Genre

Drama | Prostitution. Cult Movie. Independent Film (US)

Synopsis

Richard Forst has grown old. One night, he leaves his wife for Jeannie Rapp, a young woman who does not like friendship. Meanwhile, Richard's wife, Maria, is seduced by Chet, a kind young man from Detroit... A film about the meaningless of life for a certain kind of wealthy middle-aged people.

Awards: 1968: 3 nominations for Oscar: Supp. Actor (Cassel), Supp. Actress (Carlin), Writing

1968: Venice: Pasinetti Award (Best Film), Volpi Cup (Best Actor)

1968: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Film & Director

1968: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Original Screenplay

1968: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): 2 awards.

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Critics' reviews

"Far away the strongest, bluntest, most important American movie of the year (...) a movie so good that one can hardly believe it."

Renata Adler: The New York Times
"This is the world through the idiosyncratic eye of Cassavetes, which is both all-forgiving and inexhaustibly, passionately nosy."

Mick LaSalle: San Francisco Chronicle
"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. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Stripped to its bones, Faces is the elegantly simple story of two equal and opposite betrayals."

Dana Stevens: Slate
"'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."

Variety Staff: Variety
"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."

Los Angeles Times
"This is one of the great alternative masterpieces of the American cinema. In many ways, Cassavetes' most important film."

Michael Wilmington: Chicago Tribune
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Faces

1968

John Cassavetes

7.5

(3,402)