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Faces

  • Dir: John Cassavetes

  • USA, 1968, English, 130mins, DCP

  • Cast: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel

Returning to independent filmmaking, Cassavetes exemplified how to make a great film with a budget of just $275,000, a 16mm Bolex, and an insatiable curiosity about human relations. Replete with the auteur’s trademarks – intense long takes, uncomfortable close-ups, and nervy performances, it zeroes in on a disintegrating marriage in middle-class suburbia under the microscope. ‘I want a divorce’ triggers a booze-fuelled night of infidelity, as the husband indulges in a revelry with a prostitute and the wife loses herself in the arms of a young hustler. A classic of modern realism, Faces confronts sexual politics with a brutal honesty rarely matched in cinema.

Venice Film Festival: Best Actor and Pasinetti Award for Best Film

15/2(Sun):Seminar with Li Cheuk-to and Bryan Chang

Screening:

In-theatre Screening

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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.