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Husbands (1970) -- J. Cassavetes
A Cassavetes film is
always an intense experience and Husbands is no different. Subtitled "A comedy about death, life,
and freedom", it doesn't seem like a comedy at all, unless you choose to
treat the act of living as comedic.
Perhaps it is and we should.
Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, and Cassavetes himself are all pretty
incredible, exuding raw emotion, laced with confusion and sometimes near
delirium. After the fourth of the
friends dies, the remaining three look into the void, take stock, go on a
bender, and potentially screw things up with their wives and kids. As with all of Cassavetes films, there is a
loose improvisatory feel here and some scenes go on too long, some exposition
is seemingly missing, and you never know what will happen next. In other words, great.
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