United States
1968
130 minutes
Black and White
1.66:1
English
252
The disintegration of a marriage is dissected in John Cassavetes’ searing Faces. Shot in high-contrast 16 mm black and white, the film follows the futile attempts of captain of industry Richard (John Marley) and his wife, Maria (Lynn Carlin), to escape the anguish of their empty marriage in the arms of others. Featuring astonishingly powerful, nervy performances from Marley, Carlin, and Cassavetes regulars Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel, Faces confronts suburban alienation and the battle of the sexes with a brutal honesty and compassion rarely matched in cinema.
| Richard Forst | John Marley |
| Jeannie Rapp | Gena Rowlands |
| Maria Forst | Lynn Carlin |
| Chet | Seymour Cassel |
| Jim McCarthy | Val Avery |
| Freddie | Fred Draper |
| Director | John Cassavetes |
| Screenplay | John Cassavetes |
| Producer | Maurice McEndree |
| Cinematography | Al Ruban |
| Editing | Maurice McEndree and Al Ruban |
| Associate producer | Al Ruban |
| Camera operator | George Sims |
| Art direction | Phedon Papamichael |
| Set decoration | Lady Rowlands |
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:
John Cassavetes’ Faces is certainly a movie to shout about . . . and maybe sing and laugh and cry and bray and tell bad jokes about, too. In a new article titled “Essential Cassavetes,” Slate film critic Dana Stevens calls the American...
The disc of Faces that you now hold is the most beautiful copy possible of a film that was meant to look lousy. Digital technology painstakingly reproduces John Cassavetes’ lighting, which allowed his actors to move about freely, and so lent his average interior the aura of a dentist’s office;...
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