Love Streams (1984)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: John Cassavetes

Writers: Ted Allan, John Cassavetes

Cinematographer: Al Ruban

Composer: Bo Harwood

Cast: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel, Margaret Abbott, Jakob Shaw, Risa Blewitt

Adapted from Ted Allan’s play, Cassavetes’s visceral, plotless, bravely acted character study follows the misfortunes of a pair of mentally unbalanced, middle-aged siblings, who fill their empty, loveless lives with casual sex, joyless holidays, inappropriate pets, and a copious amount of booze. Iain.Stott