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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013023018099
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Label: Geneon [Pioneer]
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageUnknown
Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Geneon [Pioneer]
Release Date: April 06, 1999
Running Time: 130 minutes
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
Theatrical Release Date: November 24, 1968

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
A sensation when it was released in 1968, this John Cassavetes film earned Oscar nominations for actors Seymour Cassel and Lynn Carlin. Improvised and shot in an edgy, hand-held fashion, the film examines the disintegration of the marriage of a couple in mid-life doldrums. Each seeks solace elsewhere: husband John Marley with prostitute Gena Rowlands, wife Carlin with a free spirit played by Cassel. But neither finds anything approaching the fulfillment they feel is missing from the marriage. Indeed, in Cassavetes's probe of raw emotions, these people discover that, just maybe, the problem lies not with their spouse but with themselves. You need to be a fan of Cassavetes's loose, actor-friendly style to appreciate this intriguing but sometimes rambling drama. --Marshall Fine

Description:
John Cassavetes' probing, relentless study of a middle-class married couple is regarded as the first American independent film to cross over to mainstream audiences. The film examines a seminal 36 hours in the life of Richard and Maria Frost, during which their 14-year relationship finally falls completely apart. John Marley, Gena Rowlands




Rating: - Not Your Mainstream Film
I thought Cassavetes' "A Woman Under the Influence" was brilliant, but I'm sorry to say I only lasted 20 minutes into Faces before turning it off. I know it is supposed to be ground-breaking, influential, a masterpiece, etcetera, but I just could not take the annoying characters any longer. The first 20 minutes appeared to be some improvisational piece that had over-stayed its welcome.

I respect what Cassavetes did for American independent film, but I think you really have to love ... Read More

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Rating: - Excellent
Faces, by John Cassavetes, is a 1968 film generally credited as being the first popular independent film in America to make an impact in the public consciousness. But, it is more than that. It is a film that totally subverted the dominant themes and forms of Hollywood cinema, at the time, showed that `adult' films, truly adult, not a euphemism for pornography, could have mass appeal, and paved the way for the great auteur decade of American filmmaking that was the 1970s. That things have regressed ... Read More

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Rating: - Important, but grating.
Faces (John Cassavettes, 1968)

I have to rank myself among those, having seen Faces, who understand its importance in the film world, but can't bring themselves to like the movie. I understand why Cassavettes did the things he did with this movie, why the film is supersaturated and the sound mix is awful and all the other little quirks that kept this so far away from Hollywood, and its subject matter is conceptually brilliant; the question one has to put to oneself is whether you're actually ... Read More

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Rating: - Can't Face It
I had heard about the independent films of actor/director John Cassavetes when I was a teenager. I remember his acting in "The Dirty Dozen" and various other movies but I don't think I had the chance to see his work as a director until I watched "Faces" last night. After a sceptical start, I came away impressed with this movie.

"Faces" as I saw it, is a movie about the emptiness of life in some people. The film opens with a very particular movie producer going in for a screening of a new film. ... Read More

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Rating: - Very good, a bit inaccessible
John Cassavetes is certainly an interesting director (great actor too, but interesting director). Instead of directing films for entertainment, he directs them to present a "slice-of-life", so to speak, only one that is usually tumultuous and unkind. His movies are generally uphill battles to watch, but they're worth it.

In this film, an over-the-hill man and woman break up and persue other, younger paramours. While successful, they still have to deal with their own separate pain and fear of many ... Read More

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