THURSDAY 31st July 2008
Times : 7:30pm doors open 8pm film starts
Tickets : £4 on the door
Fovea Film Club presents a rare screening of John Cassavetes’ “Love Streams”. Winner of the Golden Bear in 1984, “Love Streams” was Cassavetes’ last film and is arguably his best, bringing together the strongest elements from his previous work and then veering off in an absolutely new direction. A lack of distribution after its initial release meant the film was almost impossible to see until being issued on DVD in France by Agnes B (merci!). In terms of plot it’s difficult to describe, John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands play a brother and sister trying, and ultimately failing, to help each other through hard times – the film reaches its emotional climax with a scene between Cassavetes (in a sopping wet straw hat) and a goat caught in a torrential rain storm. There is a very beautiful scene in a bowling alley and a ballet sequence. Somehow along the way “Love Streams” turns out to be one of the craziest, funniest and most heart breaking films about love you are ever likely to see.
1984, cert 15, 141 mins
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