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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

To describe the story of "Faces" is futile, possibly even misleading. This film can best be described as a series of scenes conveying the intertwined lives of several people over an expanded period of time. Nothing is resolved. Characters are constantly switching topics, radically shifting through a series of emotions. There are about a handful of scenes in total, most of which last around fifteen to twenty five minutes. I hope by now I've conveyed that this is about as far from a conventional narrative as possible.The best way to describe this film is pure, raw intimacy and intensity. The camera is rarely far from anyone. The framing is always off center and close, which builds not just intimacy but total unease. The performances are absolutely authentic, not a line or moment feels inauthentic (besides when a character is being inauthentic, of course). The film is an exhausting watch, and getting through this in one sitting is often difficult. Cassavette's other films certainly feel more well paced and spaced out, but the degree to which this film can quickly overwhelm is a testament to the film's strength and the experience watching it.Yes, I could sit here and talk about the movie's themes, it's portrayal of intimate relationships and society in general, but I think the most honest way I could review this is to refer to this film as an experience. If you're willing to engage the film, to watch the loud, obnoxious characters often going on tangents, giving fake laughter and trying to be distracted from themselves, you will be rewarded.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. - Shakespeare.To really understand the above statement you have to actually see the instances when the players refuse to play their parts, even if momentarily. Renoir did it in "La Règle du jeu". People playing different roles - master and servant, husband and lover, poacher and grounds-keeper, break for their roles and connect with each other. It is one of the most beautiful movies ever made and has been in AFI Top 10 since it was released.Faces is the anti-thesis of "La Règle du jeu". Here to the player stop playing their parts but instead of connecting with each other, they distance themselves from each other. So we have husband and wife, married woman and a gigolo, married man and a prostitute, all breaking their roles but to distance themselves even more from each other. In process they reveal how the very roles are a sham, that we just play out of habit, convenience and society. It challenges our very lives.Of course, this makes for a very nasty picture but with incredible moments of truth. It is very honest and very depressing and a very hard watch while still being fascinating. Its the kind of picture that you appreciate more than you enjoy.

From director John Cassavetes (The Killing of a Chinese Bookie), this film from the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die book was rated rather well by the critics, so I hoped I would agree with their opinions, as the book has often rewarded me with some great watches I otherwise may not have found. Basically, shot in a style similar to documentary, the marriage of a middle-aged couple is disintegrating and in its final stages, the husband Richard Forst (The Godfather's John Marley) is the one who demands the divorce from Maria (Oscar nominated Lynn Carlin), he is leaving her to be with Jeannie Rapp (The Notebook's Gena Rowlands) and many groups and individuals are coming to see them during this time. After the divorce is filed a company of brash businessmen and prostitutes is who Richard spends a night with, while his wife spends her time with middle-aged her female friends and an ageing free-associating playboy, and then young Chet (Oscar nominated Seymour Cassel) from Detroit. This night is full of conversations that cause tension and confrontations, modern American lifestyle is illustrating from all of this as interests, love lives and emotional/spiritual fulfilment of characters is brought into the situations. Pretty much all the character display dissatisfaction and are deeply happiness with their personal lives and try to cover this up while hanging with their friends putting on a false face, and overall there is no hope in the film at all, it only presumes most people in the world have to realise they may be unhappy in some way. Also starring Fred Draper as Freddie Draper, Val Avery as Jim McCarthy, Dorothy Gulliver as Florence, Joanne Moore Jordan as Louise Draper, Darlene Conley as Billy Mae, Gene Darfler as Joe Jackson and Elizabeth Deering as Stella. The performances by Marley and Rowlands and the supporting cast members are fine, and the direction is also fine, I think the only problem for me was that I couldn't really follow what was going on, apparently the film was meant to last six hours, so it was probably a good idea it was cut down, there were some interesting sequences so overall it was an alright drama. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen. Good!

a film based on Bergman crumbs. cold, ash full, exploration of solitude, desire and masks of escape. a film like a river in profound night of senses. top of director art and characters as dice on velvet beach. a cocktail, a strong cocktail in which humor is part of sadness, fight against yourself - piece of return to womb, the adventure - part of limits, in which revenge, love, desire, need of other are just accidents or small lights of dusty candle.honest picture of fall and Utopian freedom.combination of faces, gestures and refuges. and gray circle of different self definition. a masterpiece far by every definition. and form to describe an empty world in its sunrise.