Faces (1968 film)
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| Directed by | John Cassavetes |
| Written by | John Cassavetes |
| Produced by | Maurice McEndree John Cassavetes (uncredited) |
| Starring | John Marley Gena Rowlands Lynn Carlin Seymour Cassel Fred Draper Val Avery |
| Cinematography | Al Ruban Haskell Wexler (uncredited) |
| Edited by | Al Ruban Maurice McEndree |
| Music by | Jack Ackerman |
| Distributed by | Continental Distributing |
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Running time | 183 minutes (premiere cut) 130 minutes (release/director's cut) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $275,000 |
Faces is a 1968 American tragedy film written, produced, and directed by John Cassavetes—his fourth directorial work. It depicts, shot in cinéma vérité-style, the final stages of the disintegrating marriage of a middle-aged couple, played by John Marley and newcomer Lynn Carlin. Cassavetes regulars Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper, and Val Avery also star.
At the 29th Venice International Film Festival, the film won the Pasinetti Prize and the Best Actor Award (for Marley). At the 41st Academy Awards, it received three Oscar nominations: Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (for Cassel), and Best Supporting Actress (for Carlin). Initial critical reception to the film was somewhat polarized, but it went on to gain widespread acclaim, and is now considered one of the most demonstrative and influential works of the New Hollywood movement. In 2011, Faces was added to the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."