Dining-Drinking
February, 1971
There is a new thing happening to American films that reaches a climax in Husbands, a noteworthy if far from perfect movie by writer-director-actor John Cassavetes, who made a measurable splash with Faces. Cassavetes' Husbands, though unequivocally personal, owes a lot to cinéma vérité, neorealism, method improvisation and all those fine little foreign films that have used nonprofessional actors to rediscover simple truths. Here a moviegoer finds himself light-years away from the well-rehearsed...
