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    Love Streams

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    The 30th anniversary re-release of the John Cassavetes film Love Streams posed quite a number of problems for me recognizing all its good intentions in making a serious work of art... Cassavetes style. He had a very distinct style and directorial manner unlike any other director. John would act in main stream movies such as Rosenary's Baby and tons more simply to make money to direct his own independent movies. Certainly no Studio would ever put up a cent for basically a money loser.

    Anyone who ever knew John would say what a great guy and friend he was. Gena Rowlands, in fact, was his sacred Muse. All this aside, John would only make his type film and nothing was ever to change that. John died relatively young refusing a LIVER TRANSPLANT time and time again until Mr. Cassavates died from liver failure. It was very sad as John and Genna Rowlands were so much in love. She reveres him to this day.

    LOVE STREAMS deals with love, former marriages, divorce, custody battles... the works. It's all an investigation on the nature of love though I personally don't see much love in it unless one digs very deeply. What I see is people who are fragile, lonely and dysfunctional. Most Cassavates movies including LOVE STREAMS seem almost experimental films with probably a good deal of improvisation. (This I don't know for sure, but it certainly appears so) As in other Cassavetes film, Love Streams boils over in realism. One certainly gets a good dose of it always mixed with surrealism that eventually pops up in one form or another. His all too real films make the viewing process very difficult as nothing physical ever seems to happen. There is talk, talk, and more talk and at two an one half hours this becomes a bit wearisome.

    Sitting through a Cassavates film is an ordeal to my way of thinking so I'm afraid his genius is lost on me. He made 7 films with his wondrous wife Gena Rowlands who did her best work under her husband's direction: FACES, A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, and GLORIA for which she received Oscar Nominations including Love Streams in which she is the essence of EVERYWOMAN. I can't put my finger on it precisely, but I suppose Cassavates films are an acquired taste. I'm sure many love his mid to late work, but I don't find the films accessible, at least not now. Perhaps when I'm older!

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    pietroantoni@  19.1.2015 age: 36-49 14,540 reviews

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