Faces
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Date: January 01, 1968 to December 31, 1968
Dates Note: 1968
Country of Origin:
United States
Place of Origin: United States
Languages:
English
Color: B&W
Silent: No
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Additional Info:
Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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Personality Is Plot: The Films of John CassavetesDescription:
Faces is the night-long journey to the epicenter of a marriage on the rocks. An L.A. business executive (John Marley) is jarred out of complacency in his marriage and spends the night with a call girl (Gena Rowlands). His wife (Lynn Carlin) picks up a friendly young stud (Seymour Cassel) in a discotheque and in the morning attempts suicide. Faces is unflinching in its portrayal of the things we do for love. Ray Carney observed, “However doomed, [Cassavetes’s characters] are still smarter, more passionate, more creative than almost any other figures in all of film.”
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