Faces was a 1968 movie, directed by John Cassavetes and starring talented actresses, Gena Rowlands (his wife) and Lynn Carlin, who received one of the two Oscar nominations that the film garnered for her supporting role as "Maria". Jump to: navigation, search John Cassavetes John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 - February 3, 1989) was a Greek American actor, screenwriter, and director. ... Gena Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an American actress. ... Supporting actress whose personal data are sketchy -- was she born in 1930 or 1938??; was she born in Los Angeles, California or Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada??; is her birth name (as per IMDB) really Lynn Kramer as is widely assumed, despite the fact that her fathers surname is or was...
The film title momentarily flashes Faces, and that is all the introduction the venerable improvisational director, John Cassavetes, will need in order to present his film.
Faces follows an evening in the lives of Richard and Maria Forst (Lynn Carlin), a couple who, after fourteen years of marriage, is at a relational crossroads.
In contrast to the active and confrontational camerawork of his earlier films (most notably in Faces), John Cassavetes creates a spare, muted, and objective portrait, capturing with underlying compassion the empty lives of emotionally adrift characters who act out the ache of their unarticulated despair through incomprehensible, cruel, and often self-destructive acts.
Faces was a 1968 movie, directed by John Cassavetes and starring talented actresses, Gena Rowlands (his wife) and Lynn Carlin, who received one of the two Oscar nominations that the film garnered for her supporting role as "Maria".
The film was shot in high contrast 16 mm fl and white film stock.
Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominated performance
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