John Cassavetes and pals Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk play three husbands forced to re-evaluate their relationship and their lives after the death of one of their closest friends in Cassavetes' film "Husbands", the follow-up to his early masterpiece "Faces". As you might expect from Cassavetes the result is extraordinary cinema but a far from likeable movie mainly because the characters are far from likeable, (at times they are downright repulsive with some scenes I found deeply disturbing), while much of what they do is just plain boring to anyone other than themselves.
This is a home-movie on a grand scale and I kept asking myself are the people on the screen playing a role or just being themselves. I know some people rate this film very highly and there is no question that Victor J. Kemper's up close and personal cinematography and Cassavetes' editing (uncredited) are remarkable and if the people in this movie really are 'acting' then it's great acting but in the end I think I would rather take arsenic than be asked to sit through it again.
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