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01/26/06
Faces (1968)
88 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 14 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Synopsis: John Cassavetes, frustrated with Hollywood after his films TOO LATE BLUES and A CHILD IS WAITING were watered down and mutilated, revisits the low-budget terrain of 1959's SHADOWS in this powerful drama that continues to influence new generations of filmmakers. FACES documents the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper
Director: John Cassavetes
Screenwriter: John Cassavetes
Producer: Maurice McEndree
Composer: Jack Ackerman
Screenwriter: John Cassavetes
Producer: Maurice McEndree
Composer: Jack Ackerman
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05/24/03
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Drags its realism along like an overblown drunk tooting his own horn.
06/24/08
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12/04/07
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Though it is sometimes a tedious viewing experience, its improvisational and documentary techniques are rewarding.
08/30/06
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Cassavetes depicts marital problems with harsh, uncompromising realism and hand-held camera. For some, the movie may be overlong and indulgent, but the excesses are motivated by honesty, not ego or greed.
07/03/06
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!'
10/23/04
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John Marley and Lynn Carlin play the conflicted couple with a raw emotional reality that is uncomfortable to watch and impossible to forget.
02/26/04
The movie is very blunt and relentless, sometimes redundant, at moments nearly unintelligible, but the entire effect is as of a high-strung, very bright documentary about the way things are.
05/20/03
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[A] rambling and ultimately uninspired film, intentionally made to look cheap and lacking in much resolution.
04/03/03
More than one moviegoer has found Cassavetes’ films far too bleak to sit through voluntarily. But others feel quite the opposite, as his insights are important and this film is skilfully made.
04/03/03
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08/09/02
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