# Faces (1968)

> A privileged marriage fractures across one brutal night of infidelity, drinking, sexual need, and exposed emotional emptiness.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/598

## Facts

- Runtime: 130 min
- Genres: Drama
- Director: John Cassavetes
- Cast: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Fred Draper, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery, Dorothy Gulliver, Joanne Moore Jordan
- TMDB rating: 7.1/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062952/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: none
- Mood: abrasive, intimate, melancholic, serious film night, classic cinema viewing

## Synopsis

A poignant exploration of love and betrayal among the affluent, revealing the emptiness beneath their glamorous lives.

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- [2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)](https://ember.film/movie/3952)
- [Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)](https://ember.film/movie/23658)
- [The Mother and the Whore (1973)](https://ember.film/movie/32639)
- [Scenes from a Marriage (1974)](https://ember.film/movie/85640)
- [A Woman Under the Influence (1974)](https://ember.film/movie/18449)
- [Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)](https://ember.film/movie/317)

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