
Richard Forst has grown old. One night, he leaves his wife for Jeannie Rapp, a young woman who does not like friendship. Meanwhile, Richard's wife, Maria, is seduced by Chet, a kind young man from Detroit... A film about the meaningless of life for a certain kind of wealthy middle-aged people.... (Full plot summary below)
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Richard Forst has grown old. One night, he leaves his wife for Jeannie Rapp, a young woman who does not like friendship. Meanwhile, Richard's wife, Maria, is seduced by Chet, a kind young man from Detroit... A film about the meaningless of life for a certain kind of wealthy middle-aged people.
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| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThis is one of the most powerful and influential American films of the 60s. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonThis is one of the great alternative masterpieces of the American cinema. In many ways, Cassavetes' most important film. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertJohn Cassavetes' Faces is the sort of film that makes you want to grab people by the neck and drag them into the theater and shout: "Here!" It would be a triumphant shout. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSallePartly improvised, partly scripted, and partly somewhere between the two, Cassavetes' films have frequently been likened to jazz. Faces bears the stamp of its particular era's jazz; it trades in long stretches of chaos, even ugliness, which produce unexpected passages of grace and beauty. As punishing as that ugliness can be, the graceful bits stick in the memory. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenThere is a lot of joy in Faces—John Cassavetes’ second real “Cassavetes” film, 10 years after Shadows—and there is also a lot of anger. Often there’s a drunken combination of the two. But no matter what emotion dominates, the movie itself has the same edge, the same itchiness. It’s constantly scratching its own skin. |
| Spectrum CulturePat PaduaDespite Cassavetes's cynicism about his fellow man, his actors, who he directed to be real, not to act, found humanity even in the most seemingly contemptible characters. |
| The SpectatorPenelope HoustonThis wry, obstinate and fiercely independent film remains an actor's work. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyCassavetes depicts marital problems with harsh, uncompromising realism and hand-held camera. The movie may be overlong and excessive, but it's always honest. . |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonAlong with A Woman Under the Influence, Cassavetes' most popular movie among critics, art-house audiences and Academy members. |
| The New York Review of BooksMargot HentoffCassavetes has taken a second-hand vision and, in the guise of empathy, transmuted it into a film which is so contemptuous that there is no one who cannot feel superior to what is happening on screen ... |