Faces (Cassavetes, 1968)

[madali]

Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)

If you are a drinking person, then you know how much fun it can sometimes be. A group of friends, all drinking, copious amounts of alcohol being consumed, and everything is different, you laugh, you have fun. But to the sober person in the group, it is different. Drunk people can seem obnoxious, you don't understand why they find the jokes so funny or the little things that can suddenly make one of them angry, or the outbursts of emotions.

Watching "Faces" is like being a sober person amongst drunk. For more than two hours, characters drunkenly rant, drunkenly shout, drunkenly laugh, scream, cry, fight, argue, and on and on and on. Almost all of the film is uncontrollable laughter or constant shouting, and with a low-budget production values, the high noise from the characters just sounds more grating.

Like an actual outing with drunken people, it is not only boring, but more often than that, it is tiresome and annoying.

1/5

[X.]

Have you seen his A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE?

A masterpiece of the highest order. Contains all the stock geriatrics Cassavetes became known for, but they work with truth and grace.

[madali]

Havent watched it yet, but I do have it.