Love Streams (Cassavetes, 1984): Prince Charles Cinema, 1pm
This 35mm presentation, also screening on July 14th and August 30th, is part of the John Casssavetes and Gena Rowlands season at the Prince Charles Cinema. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
John Cassavetes's career of risk taking comes to a climax in this rich,
original, emotionally magnificent 1984 film about a brother who is
unable to love (Cassavetes) and a sister who loves too much (Gena
Rowlands). For half its length the film follows their separate
experiences—he as a celebrated novelist living a life of desperate
dissolution in Los Angeles; she as a wife and mother undergoing a
painful divorce in Chicago—and then brings them together for a rocky
reunion. At the climax they trade roles, and each is alone again in a
new way. Cassavetes follows his vision to the limit, a course that takes
him through extravagance, indulgence, and hysteria—yet for all of his
apparent disdain for classical construction, there isn't a moment in the
film that doesn't find its place in a grand design. With Seymour Cassel
and Diahnne Abbott.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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