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Faces

1968

John Cassavetes

John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Fred Draper ...

7.5

3,405

Drama 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Renata Adler The New York Times	"Far away the strongest, bluntest, most important American movie of the year (...) a movie so good that one can hardly believe it."	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"This is the world through the idiosyncratic eye of Cassavetes, which is both all-forgiving and inexhaustibly, passionately nosy."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"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)"	POS
United States	Dana Stevens Slate	"Stripped to its bones, Faces is the elegantly simple story of two equal and opposite betrayals."	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"'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."	NEU
United States	Los Angeles Times	"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."	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"This is one of the great alternative masterpieces of the American cinema. In many ways, Cassavetes' most important film."	POS
United States	Mike Clark USA Today	"Though it seems even spottier today than it did in '68, Cassavetes' most acclaimed work rebounds impressively after a near-unbearable opening half-hour"	POS
United States	Jeremiah Kipp Slant	"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"	POS

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