Cast

John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper, Val Avery, Dorothy Gulliver, Joanne Moore Jordan, Darlene Conley, Gene Darfler, Elizabeth Deering

awards

1968 Venice IFF – Najlepszy aktor / Best Actor (John Marley), 1969 National Society of Film Critics Awards – najlepszy scenariusz / Best Screenplay, najlepsza rola drugoplanowa / Best Supporting Actor (Seymour Cassel)

Film description

Faces is a film about the life of Maria and Richard Frost after several years of marriage, their relationship and dynamics of everyday experiences. It concentrates on a single day where the bored and burned-out Richard, a film executive, tries to change his life through a romance with a luxurious call girl and Maria learns the utter truth about their marriage.

According to Ray Carney, Cassavetes’s biographer, Faces offers the most characteristic features of Cassavetes’ style. It features the differences between male and female characters, but is also about people who treat their lives as a challenge, with every day as something unusual, contrasted with people who hide themselves behind forms, formulas and clichés.

Prepared by: Elżbieta Durys