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
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Color: B&W
Silent: No
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Restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Curator Notes

Film Series/Exhibition Title: 
Love Streams, Gena Rowlands & John Cassavetes
Description: 

Faces is the nightlong journey to the epicenter of a marriage on the rocks. A Los Angeles 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, [John Cassavetes’s characters] are still smarter, more passionate, more creative than almost any other figures in all of film.”

Authors/Roles: 
Judy Bloch

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