Faces (1968)

Directed by

John Cassavetes

Genre

drama film, art film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 10m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 221 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A middle-aged couple's marriage is falling apart. The film follows their final painful interactions with each other and the people around them.

rawintimateemotionally intenseunflinchinglow-keyrealisticmelancholicnaturalistic

What happens

Faces is a 1968 American drama film written, produced, and directed by John Cassavetes—his fourth directorial work. It depicts, shot in cinéma vérité-style, the final stages of the disintegrating marriage of a middle-aged couple, played by John Marley and newcomer Lynn Carlin. Cassavetes regulars Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper, and Val Avery also star. At the 29th Venice International Film Festival, the film won the Pasinetti Prize and the Best Actor Award (for Marley). At the 41st Academy Awards, it received three Oscar nominations: Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (for Cassel), and Best Supporting Actress (for Carlin). Initial critical reception to the film was somewhat polarized, but it went on to gain widespread acclaim, and is now considered one of the most demonstrative and influential works of the New Hollywood movement. In 2011, Faces was added to the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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