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Husbands
Why this pick
Cassavetes extends Faces’ bruising, semi-improvised social intimacy into a restless male friendship crisis, with long takes that let jokes, panic, cruelty, and need collide.
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MOVIE1968 2h 10m USA
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Why this pick
It shares Faces’ unvarnished emotional proximity and volatile domestic encounters, watching a marriage buckle under other people’s expectations without softening anyone involved.
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Minnie and Moskowitz
Why this pick
A warmer but still jagged Cassavetes relationship film: awkward encounters and argumentative attraction feel discovered in the moment, with the same faith in messy, contradictory people.
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Love Streams
Why this pick
For Faces’ late-night drift between lonely people and its painful comic volatility, this offers an equally intimate, unruly look at siblings seeking connection in emotional disarray.
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Wanda
Why this pick
Its rough, observational style and refusal to judge a woman moving through failed attachments make it a close companion to Faces’ raw, unsettled view of adult loneliness.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film, shot in ''cinéma vérité''-style, depicts the final stages of the disintegrating marriage of a middle-aged couple (John Marley and Lynn Carlin). We are introduced to various groups and individuals the couple interacts with after the husband's sudden statement of his desire for a divorce. Afterwards, he spends the night in the company of brash businessmen and prostitutes, while the wife spends it with her middle-aged female friends and an aging, free-associating playboy they've picked up at a bar. The night proceeds as a series of tense conversations and confrontations occur.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Gena Rowlands
Jeannie Rapp
John Marley
Richard Forst
Lynn Carlin
Maria Forst
Seymour Cassel
Chet
Fred Draper
Freddie Draper
Laurie Mock
Barmaid
Val Avery
Jim McCarthy
Darlene Conley
Billy Mae