Faces (film): Difference between revisions

Writer-director [[John Cassavetes]] described '''''Faces,''''' considered by many to be his first mature work, as "a barrage of attack on contemporary middle-class America." The film depicts a married couple, "safe in their suburban home, narrow in their thinking," he wrote, who experience a break up that "releases them from the conformity of their existence, forces them into a different context, when all barriers are down." An example of cinematic excess, ''Faces'' places its viewers inside intense lengthy scenes to allow them to discover within its relentless confrontations emotions and relations of power between men and women that rarely emerge in more conventionally structured films. In provoking remarkable performances by [[Lynn Carlin]], [[John Marley]] and [[Gena Rowlands]], Cassavetes has created a style of independent filmmaking that has inspired filmmakers around the world.

 

 

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