Husbands (1970)
Country: US
Technical: col 154m
Director: John Cassavetes
Cast: Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
Synopsis:
After the premature death of a friend shakes their sense of complacency, three friends abandon their wives and take French leave to London to live it up while they still can.
Review:
Not a triumphant Ferris Bueller-style flash of defiant male independence but, as you might expect from this director, an uncomfortably honest and poignant look, up close, at the sentiments and denials underlying much of what can be seen as boorish male behaviour. It exercises its own fascination thanks to the performances, though the preponderance of close-ups - handheld, what's more - can be oppressive, and the 'beer and song' sequence in the first half is just too long.
Country: US
Technical: col 154m
Director: John Cassavetes
Cast: Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
Synopsis:
After the premature death of a friend shakes their sense of complacency, three friends abandon their wives and take French leave to London to live it up while they still can.
Review:
Not a triumphant Ferris Bueller-style flash of defiant male independence but, as you might expect from this director, an uncomfortably honest and poignant look, up close, at the sentiments and denials underlying much of what can be seen as boorish male behaviour. It exercises its own fascination thanks to the performances, though the preponderance of close-ups - handheld, what's more - can be oppressive, and the 'beer and song' sequence in the first half is just too long.
Country: US
Technical: col 154m
Director: John Cassavetes
Cast: Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
Synopsis:
After the premature death of a friend shakes their sense of complacency, three friends abandon their wives and take French leave to London to live it up while they still can.
Review:
Not a triumphant Ferris Bueller-style flash of defiant male independence but, as you might expect from this director, an uncomfortably honest and poignant look, up close, at the sentiments and denials underlying much of what can be seen as boorish male behaviour. It exercises its own fascination thanks to the performances, though the preponderance of close-ups - handheld, what's more - can be oppressive, and the 'beer and song' sequence in the first half is just too long.