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You promised me You promised me You promised me You promised me after learning about how Cassavetes created this film after being told by his doctor that he only had 6 months to live makes it an even tougher pill to fully swallow. Love Streams a heart-wrenching masterpiece. Cassavetes and Rowlands both put on, again, incredible performances as two unhinged people. That dream sequence of the stage performance is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. It’s crazy to even imagine Cassavetes directing and starring in this when he had been told he had such a short time to live and yet he still wanted to put such a fascinating piece of art out there for the world to see. I’m happy he got 5 more years of life after this was made. RIP.
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so much love for john and everything he did. so much love for gena rowlands and her miniature horses. so much love for the scene where both of them arrive home and talk about what creativity means, even if they’re brother and sister here, it felt like taking a peek into their real life marriage. so much love for the all the truthfulness and affection i’ve felt watching cassavetes films. happy birthday john, love is everything.
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“Life is a series of suicides… divorces, promises broken, children smashed” Sometimes I think that cinema peaked 40 years ago with Gena’s zoo, and has been in borrowed time since then, what else can it really achieve when this movie already exists? It is Cassavetes’ most of expansive and inventive movie, in part because he and Rowlands acting against each other is so central to it. He reportedly didn’t want to play the part, but it is hard to imagine it with anyone else, because it is hard to imagine Love Streams without the intimacy they bring to the roles. Even if they don’t share that many scenes together, as a drama it is very predicted in how they move close and drift apart time and again, the editing is shaped so they seem to be continuous together, the same way the emotions behind keep swinging from hopeful to misanthropic in such way they are never opposite options.
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“Do you believe that love is a continuous stream? Cassavetes is above all else a cinema of flesh, of an overwhelming need of embracing the material world. Love Streams could’ve been one type of proposition – she loves too much, he withholds everything – but end up been a very different one, less based on easy oppositions: a post-apocalyptic world of feelings whose Adam and Eve just happens to be brother and sister, one less given to carnal thoughts as much a constant emotional need. It is his most beautiful sustained film and along with Chinese Bookie the most imaginative, every cut bringing a total mystery (although the early fatalistic film tend to contracts its world while Love Streams embrace…
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Not just the bottomless need for love but the inexhaustible compulsion to express it, to find an outlet for it, to enact it.
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Seeing this in a theater was an interesting experience that I’m not sure I’d repeat. I may be too precious with this movie simply because it means so much to me, but it was difficult to hear people laugh through parts that I consider devastating. Perhaps I missed some of the humor watching the movie in intimate settings in the past, but I feel like Cassavetes backs each line with such defined levels of truth that anything that feels awkward or funny hits me with equal parts vulnerability. Don’t get me wrong, I love levity and this film has it in spades, but it simultaneously deeply understands the purpose levity serves in our lives. If I’m truly connecting with Cassavetes…
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cassavetes understood the messiness of human lives like nobody else.
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This may actually be a terrible movie. For the first time I saw the possibility of how people could be perplexed, or completely disengaged by this. More than any other Cassavetes movie too, this thing is enigmatic, bordering nonsensical, and has an overwhelming sincerity masked by performative excess, that leans into its schizophrenic quality (intentionally). It’s honestly barely a movie; there’s no plot, things just sort of happen, it builds up to a wildly obtuse and out of left field third act, and has some really counter-intuitive characterizations/performances/performers, alongside the trademarked half-sentences, constant laughter, shitty editing, and overall amateurish charisma. All these things just make me love it more. This is an artist, knowingly going to die, just laying it…
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“love is a stream, it’s continuous, it doesn’t stop” the way john jumps into the cab and engulfs gena in the most tender and sincere hug when their characters see each other in the film for the first time… i love they
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it was the ending that got me. the main character telling his sister that he loved her and would take care of her and begging her not to go before she disappeared into the rain. except i think that was also john cassavetes telling gena rowlands, six months after a fatal diagnosis, how he couldn’t have done this without her and that the love would always be there, regardless if their films lived on or melted into a jukebox and blurry colors as it poured outside. he said goodbye in the final frame by waving at us. gena maybe never encapsulated her legacy so neatly. like the film, she strode in like a hurricane, told us that love was all…
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Mmargot 8 月 22, 2026
i’m the high roller. i’m gonna bet- i’m gonna bet- love. i’m gonna bet the ultimate, okay?
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te amo gena rowlands eu sempre acabo no chão
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BBirdy99 8 月 22, 2026
I really don’t know what to think about this, not a single thought or maybe too many that I can’t really understand, it expose some realities of life that I haven’t seen in other films before. I just know it gave me a terrible fear of being a woman on her 50s something and having nothing but endless love and having nowhere to put it
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Безумно люблю смотреть фильмы про любовь, но не те что демонстрируют классическую романтичную историю, а те которые изучают вид любви и ее формы. Насколько любовь все таки не простая вещь. Главная квота фильма, я бы сказала: «Любить это не значит обладать» – и это самое тяжелое решение. Очень понравились линия с сыном Роберта и дочерью Сары, как их «потоки любви» не совпадают с потоками их родителей, как сын роберта испытывает к нему безусловную любовь только за то что он просто…
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What I loved most about Love Streams was the story and how naturally everything flows from one moment to the next. The relationship between the two siblings feels incredibly genuine, and the film never feels like it’s forcing their relationship or emotions into a conventional structure. It just lets these characters exist, argue, break down, laugh, and try to understand each other. The way it started, as well. You start with both having different kinds of conflicts and you inmmediately…
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Wow. Just wow. Stunning.
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First ever john cassavetes film i watched, and wow this was good. You know what i like alot about this movie. It’s not a happy love story that most people would expect and that’s what i love about it. Not all love stories are rainbows and sunshines, most people forget about how love can also be tragic. This movie shows 2 different people with their love life, 2 of which you don’t wanna end up like. But it feels so…
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“who the fuck are you?”
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hayat; bir dizi intiharlar, boşanmalar, tutulmayan sözler, içine edilmiş çocuklar ve bir sürü şeyden ibaret…
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I’ve seen it for the second time in just a few days. A masterpiece that wins you over more and more each time.
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A person has to be sick before they can get well. Gena Rowland’s plans mentally struggling so well. The pain in that first introduction of her. Wow intense. Love is a stream. It’s continuous. It doesn’t stop. I’m almost not crazy now….i just don’t care. That imagination of running them over is Wilde. Him driving down the driveway after Allie is such a sick shot To always be drinking champagne. What a life. Love is everything, you remember that. Dad…
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Bbrie 8 月 20, 2026
eles são perfeitos um pro outro mesmo fazendo irmãos né, pqp kkkkk
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Whole house mentally ill 🤣
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Half a cigarettes worth of ash really got to me.
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bon évidemment c’est un film génial après moi j’ai trouvé ça un peu longuet (mais j’étais un peu crevé) !! c’est très bien filmé je trouve ? bref
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Super interesting social/family dynamics…damn…but a bit too drawn out in parts. Felt long.
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Some day in future, gonna take my kids I pad 23 lock them in a room, screen every cassavettes movie, tell em study up. The little shit is gonna grow up with a soul. Rowlands cassavettes the most talented married couple of all time. Ridiculous, telling me he was on death bed. And they just strapped up, wiped tears and made a masterpiece
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Frustrating and charmless. Hurt people hurt people
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Dos hermanos a la deriva, intentando sostenerse después de que el amor ya les pasó por encima. Me gusta cómo Cassavetes los muestra necesitándose y haciéndose daño casi en el mismo movimiento. Cada vez entiendo más su obsesión con el amor como refugio y condena. Me gustó. Cuatro estrellas.
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Oh Cassavettes. I’ve never watched a director like him. This film bangs. I felt it intuitively click with me. Could’ve been maybe 20-30 mins shorter, but it was sublime. No artist I’ve seen like Cassavettes.
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This film gets progressively more batshit as it goes on. It starts to take on a kind of dream logic. (Stream logic?) Gena Rowlands’ glorious hair is a sight to behold. I love her. Every time I watch her in Cassavetes movies, I’m like “this is what it feels like to be a woman.” She just harnesses such vulnerability and yearning and performing for others so well. Bowling in her pantyhose. Also, her character’s Herculean requests of cab drivers and…
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a bit long towards the end but i love my brother so very dearly that this movie hurt me on a cellular level
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Entendo o fato do filme trazer um personagem que não consegue amar e outro que ama muito, mas infelizmente esse filme não “clicou” para mim
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Love is a stream it’s continuous it doesn’t stop __sara Love is dead, love is a fantasy little girls have __Robert
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Confused with this one Lots to appreciate in it with Cassavetes technical brilliance, surprising artistic choices, tracking shots and all that. The plot was pretty unpredictable throughout and I got sorta lost in the end when all the animals appeared and got even more baffled when the dog turned into that man and Robert started laughing mad silly. Feel like a real idiot for not resonating with it enough but maybe I just need to be older and have kids…
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I saw only 15 minutes of this before the similarities with Woman Under the Influence became overbearing. I just cannot stand Gena Rowlands pretending to be “insane” in front of a camera. It makes me cringe so much. Some day in the future, I will have built up enough self-discipline to watch this revolting mess, but it is not today.
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I choose to believe that Gena Rowlands actually backflips into the pool. Guess this one concludes all the Cassavetes’ films that i watched and though i can’t say i’m a huge fan of his films i really find his technique in making a film really interesting and profound (performances and themes are a highlight) The man has an eye for portraying raw complex elements in marital and personal crises but it’s just too bad his films don’t do anything for…
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Two siblings on a different side of a spectrum, he distince himself, keeps it on a service level, takes the obsorver watcher role, and never gets too close. she gets too obsessive and suffocating. both are immature but she at least tries to become more balanced): while he denies the problem and has a superior complex. This is everything i love in a film complex, layered, funny, with the prettiest visuals. The ultimate question is: anxious attachment daughter or avoidant attachment son?
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All the difficultly of watching A Woman Under the Influence, but without the emotional payoff. The movie as a whole was competently made. The main two actors are good (especially Gena Rowlands). Several individual scenes or subplots were good (for example, Robert’s abandoned son). But it all adds up to kind of a hodgepodge of stuff that just sorta happens. It doesn’t really go anywhere – at one point Sarah looks at her watch, realises the film is almost up,…
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Rrania 8 月 18, 2026
I’ve finally gotten on good terms with my very close personal friend john. “Life is a series of suicides, divorces, promises broken, children smashed, whatever.” to love unconditionally and not love at all. to connect with everything and remain attached to nothing. different paths, different forms of longing, all flowing into the same river: estrangement. There is no such thing as a love that flows endlessly like a river. there are only fadeaways.
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1984 was worlds away from now. I am trying to imagine myself in 1984 watching this. Imagine letting a drunk man drive your Gremlin and being interested in his well being. He is bloody asking if they are going to have sex. Such male fantasy BS. All women just want to take care of a man I don’t want to be a slave – crazy words to put in a child’s mouth Gena was willing to go along with whatever…
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AAndrewknowshisfavouritefilm 8 月 17, 2026
Nothing else like it P:s not rating it raving it properly yet until a rewatch (which will be very soon) because there were constant interruptions, pauses and other things which I feel didn’t give the film proper justices, either way amazing, fantastic, etc yeah of course I loved it. The most perfect cinema you can find really, at least in American cinema. But yeah will say more once I’ve rewatched this one.
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A masterpiece of Cassavetes’ cinema: moving, entertaining and unpredictable. With an unmistakable authenticity
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much like with a woman under the influence there were parts of this that i could really tangibly feel and others that i think just flew straight over my head… i enjoyed the overall feel but perhaps i dont have the perspective to appreciate this fully
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MMatt 8 月 17, 2026
france was the worst
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If I was told I would die in 6 months I’d make a movie starring me being rich and drinking and smoking the whole time too
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AAxel 8 月 16, 2026
Je trouve ça tellement dur d’écrire sur Cassavetes. Ces films sont tellement éreintants, tellement insaisissables. C’est un flot d’images et d’émotions brutes comme rarement on en reçoit. C’est impossible d’en ressortir indemne.
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Je peux pas dire que j’ai passé un bon moment mais c’est un vrai condensé de la filmo de Cassavetes au final même si pas le plus accessible
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I really feel such crazy warm feelings watching this. I agree that love is a stream and that it never really stops, so the only thing you can do is abandon it, if you need to, or put it in your wallet. You can still love someone without being in love with them. I think too that John’s character can only really, at this point, love Gena’s because he knew her when he wasn’t a man yet. It’s that love…
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talvez eu também precise de uma mini fazenda.
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Excellent mais je mentirais en prétendant avoir passer un agréable moment. J’attends le remake avec Virginie Efira et Vincent Lindon.
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This is the kind of dysfunction I bring to the function, love can be many things in many ways. We don’t all love the same. But we are all free to feel it still.
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Interesting and well-acted characters. Could use a bit faster pace, or a few more big moments, awfully subtle most of the time.
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Eu te dei outra chance cassavetes e falhou Não da, não entendo, não tem logica , aí tu pesquisa o que é pra ser porque todo mundo gosta ahh é porque foge de hollywood nao tem inicio meio fim ta bom nao quero final feliz mas alguma coisa tem que ter Sangueira sem sentido. Zoologico em casa?!?? A aaa ta louco Nao sabia que ele e a rowlands eram casados e pelo jeito ele fez esse filme sabendo que tinha poucos meses de vida mas acabou vivendo mais REI DO CINEMA INDEPENDENTE Revolucionou a setima arte.
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Sarah, you deserved better. I wasn’t sure if Sarah and Robert were siblings or dating at first. It wasn’t until the middle of the film that I realized they were siblings. It’s funny how disappointed Robert looked when Sarah bought and brought home all those animals. At least Sarah had a beautiful dream. “Love is a continuous stream.” “Does it ever stop?” “Maybe. But it always finds somewhere else to flow.”
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This film rocks, and Gena Rowlands mega rocks. Definitely a mystifying flick; I never expected Cassevetes to jump head first into Surrealism as he does here at numerous points, but of course, it just works.
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Queria ter uma casa dessas
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buenisimas preguntas. aguante el amor, el que sea.
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queria muiiito conseguir escrever algumas (várias) linhas de elogios agora, mas tô novamente entorpecida com os efeitos de ver qualquer coisa do Cassavetes num domingo à noite. as atuações da Gena e do próprio Cassavetes tem um jeito muito genuíno, e como sempre, nada soa ensaiado, o roteiro se mistura com a pessoa. performances brilhantes para mostrar todo o caos em que nos envolvemos quando se trata de amor, afinal, é impossível não ser atravessado por ele várias e várias vezes. “Do you believe love is a continuous stream?” no mais, te amo Cassavetes, vou honrar esse aqui quando minha cachola voltar a funcionar!!
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Carrying
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In love, i’m not sure of me… While holistically, the film just didn’t really work for me, I think i’ll always at least cherish that quote.
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“Do you believe that love is a continuous stream?” it’s hard to believe that it is, because it isn’t. Cassavettes attacking love and all of its many facets. wonderfully sublime. the ending hit me pretty hard. i need to call my sister.
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“Love is a stream, it’s continuous, it doesn’t stop.”
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هذا ممكن الفيلم الاكثر ابداع لجون كاسافيتس، تفنن هنا في طرح نظرياته حول مفاهيم الحب وقدم شخصيات وحوارات رائعه كالمعتاد منه،ايضا تعجبني كثيرا المشاهد السيرياليه القليله الي يستخدمها وطريقه توظيفه لها وهنا تفنن فيها اكثر من المعتاد ومن ناحيه التمثيل فجون مو مكتفي بكونه مخرج مبدع فقط لا هو ممثل مبدع ايضاهو وزوجته الموهوبه والاثنين دائما يكونوا ثنائي تمثيلي متناغم والشي الي يمدح عليه المخرج هو مع ان الفيلم متشعب الي انه قدر يسخر كل شي فيه لخدمه لثيم الرئيسي مع الثيمات الثانيه لكل التشعبات وهو الشي الي ما افلح مخرج فيلم الانفصال
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brota el amor de tu piel de tal vida un arroyo infinito te quiero mujer aún que no valgas nada te quiero mujer viva más que mil muertas pronto lo serás más así tú nacida por bella.
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JJM 8 月 15, 2026
Laborious (a touch), intriguing, evocative. As a meditation on the breadth and scope of love, this film is quite effective! Has inspired many of my own half-baked musings that I feel no pull in boring you all with. Gena Rowlands forever!
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the way gena rowlands and john cassavetes portray such complex and flawed characters with so much empathy will be studied for generations. somehow cassavetes’ most complicated film i’ve seen so far
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*Love Streams* is a very well-written and well-directed film. It’s a dense and heavy film. You’ll understand the premise on the first watch, but catching all its nuances might require a few more viewings. It’s rated lower for me because the subject matter isn’t easy to digest, and the overall enjoyment factor is quite low.
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الفلم الـ900 وتناقضات الحب كل انسان يحتاج إلى الحب ولكن ليس كل إنسان يستطيع ان يتحمل تبعاته
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صبح کتابی رو شروع کردم که شخصیتش احساس دوست داشته نشدن میکرد درحالیکه میدونست تمام اتفاقات خلاف این رو باید بهش ثابت کنند. بعدش باقی روز رو به عشق فکر کردم و تهش تصمیم گرفتیم پای تماشای فیلمی بشینیم که در اسمش کلمهی عشق رو داره. عشق! عشق! عشق! رابرت راست میگه؛ عشق همه چیزه.
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This is john cassavetes last movie everyone there was nothing after this
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Back in the 80s, when rent was only 2 raspberries & a Klondike bar, you just had so much more time, money & energy to be retarded 😔
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the most lynchean shit I’ve seen without been Lynch itself (I felt so lost the second half —in a good way—)
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bring 2 miniature horses in the cab so i know its real flame emote
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My God, how have I never heard of this guy before… Incredible watch. Shout outs to Jim the dog.
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Qquenalro 8 月 13, 2026
when you watch Cassavetes films you can expect an unstable gena rowlands,suffering women,and men who are also unhinged.at least he knows how to write dialogues
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I was very excited to see Love Streams because I admire John Cassavetes’, A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and I adore his film, Opening Night. (1977). Of course, the lead of these films is Cassavetes’ wife, the inimitable, Gena Rowlands. Cassavetes & Rowlands have quite the filmography together and I hope to see them all, but after seeing Love Streams, I think I’m gonna take a break for a while. Love Streams is a confounding and frustrating film. All three of…
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ماتفهمه بس تحس فيه
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i’m really gonna do this goddamn thing. i’m gonna find balance fucking fantassstsiiccc…….
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i’m gonna need everyone to see this at least once in their life
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I understand them.
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The scene when the son meets Robert for the first time is so sad.
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The luggage scene stressed me out.
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You gotta love something, anything really. How do two siblings wind up so screwy? I would love to see how they grew up. She pushes so hard for her daughter’s love, and it repels her. He rejects the love from his son, yet it only makes the kid that much more desperate for it. Brother and sister, who both seem so lost to love entirely, are two sides of the same coin, desperately clingy to each other. Also, I don’t…
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ภาพยนตร์คนสลิ้งแตก
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88 Ball 8 月 12, 2026
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this film is extremely sincere in the way it pulls as various emotional threads, carefully examining the need to be loved and to express love – one sibling avoiding it at all costs, the other chasing it constantly – the way they treat people around them mirrors their own beliefs about themselves and their relationships with other people – Sarah trying to teach Robert how to feel the way she does about the world, so she can get some peace “do you believe that love is a continuous stream?”
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I just love Gena Rowlands
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N2/G3/M2/C2.5/X2.5 RI -1 A film that spends most of its runtime struggling to explain its existence. Artificial characters are pushed through increasingly contrived situations to reiterate the same simple traits until there is no point left to miss. The late surrealism finally gives it some identity and even a few genuinely great scenes, but it arrives almost independently of the preceding mundanity. Otherwise, it often feels like the least interesting conventions of the 80s era distilled into a film of their own.
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There are so many quotes in this movie that hit me so hard, I almost cried
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ททึ่ง 8 月 12, 2026
มากกว่ารักคือคำว่าอะไรใครจะรู้
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“love is a stream, it’s continuous, it doesn’t stop.” i believe in this. i believe in love more than anything else
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This is a statement. As Cassavetes’ learned he had 6 months to live, this is what he felt necessary to craft, and thank God, or Cassavetes, for that. You shouldn’t search for meaning in this, it’s not supposed to have any, i believe. It’s sensorial. This could’ve fallen into the opposites trope too easily: a sister who loves too deeply and a brother who doesn’t love anything at all. That’s not what happens. This is two disturbed lives depicted very…
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DDaniel A. Jacobson 8 月 12, 2026
The end scene is right up there with Ozu’s final frame of his last film, An Autumn Afternoon. A beautiful and deeply sad microcosm for all of their work. *I know Love Streams is not techically his “last” but no one really counts Big Trouble as his right?
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Criterion Challenge 2026 – #37 – Must see Criterion released films as featured on Danny Peary’s “Guide for the Film Fanatic” (1986) You really have to be in the right mood to watch a John Cassavetes film. For example, I wouldn’t recommend Husbands, A Woman Under the Influence, Opening Night, etc. if you were looking for something light. Or fun. Or happy. And if you were feeling down? No. Stay away from all of those. Love Streams may not be…
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Cassavetes letting Rowlands go. He stays behind in his dark house, cigarette in his mouth, glass in his hand, getting drowned by the rain. The animals – the tokens of her love – surround him but she has to go because she decided to give herself a chance. Can he choose to do it too? Will it be too late by the time he does?
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at first i was confused how things would happen, most of the early minutes just live inside the scenes without context, and the film simply follows people through their days, somehow you pick up what’s happening between them without ever being told directly, and that disorientation isn’t a flaw so much as a method, the film refuses exposition because it’s not interested in explaining people, it’s interested in watching them, the same way you’d watch someone in your own life…
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Cassavetes was cinemas greatest depicter of Love and all its moments of bliss, hardships, and absence.
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Jjunebugskipping 8 月 10, 2026
love is everything swan song of a film need a little break from you cassavetes
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There’s a lot to unpack in this film… I left feeling overwhelmed and tired but also how cool is it to see a movie where you leave feeling like this. Update: After thinking about this movie more I’m bumping it up to 5. Thank you John for creating a movie about all kinds of love and how painful it can be. Love streams may sound cheesy and cliche but it’s such a simple and true way of thinking about it.…
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Gena Rowlands you are a goddess
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Wooow wow wow
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This movie never truly pulled me in all the way. I find these erratic movies to be slightly hit or miss, and being such that I never fully got into the dynamics, the conversations, the utter nonsense, I never truly existed with the film. That said there were moments of true craft and sharp dialogue that glimmered of a masterpiece, and for that I thoroughly enjoyed much of the film. Is love a continuous stream? Maybe one day I’ll find out for sure
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JJonah Shill 8 月 10, 2026
Gena Rowlands plays such a perfect crazy person and her poofy hairdo is so incredible it makes you wanna jump in like its a swimming pool. Did John Cassavetes binge smoke crack and watch David Lynch movies on repeat, before deciding we must all witness what the true king of sleaze (and his absolutely miserable life) looks like and his redemption as a lowly goat herder? Who the fuck are you? These are the movies that seem absolutely deranged at first, but then bury themselves in your brain bc they show something actually real in an otherwise bleak and ugly world.
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Excellent swan song if you consider it as Cassavetes’s last true picture. Found the dream sequence particularly fascinating insofar as sometimes the only means of continuing without closure is to make it up. I’m also biased towards sibling dynamics and all the complexities that entail with it; how only you two are shaped in a certain way and the consequences that develop from that. Both of them being addicts and hedonists to some extent to cope with their failures in…
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another cassavetes that makes me think about how much i love cinema and complex characters and the concept of love
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Crazy runs in the family. There’s something very human and beautiful at the center of this. Cassavettes succeeds at being grating and gross, but Gena Rowlands is compelling af in every frame. Applause for Gena
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TTara 8 月 10, 2026
I get it but I didn’t connect with it which makes me sad. I could see this being one that totally affects me in 20-30 years. Who knows. I love movies.
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A movie about how being in love can make you bi-polar and also about being a broken naked dog.
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if anyone calls, just say i died. yeah? how long are you gonna be dead? i don’t know. couple of days, just say. love isn’t one big continuous stream; it’s a bunch of little streams all branching out to different people and facets of our lives as they ebb and flow. some streams intertwine, and some don’t. some streams are deeper than they first appear, and some are just shallow. some streams lead back into the ocean, and some wind…
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delicate, desperate and deceptive.
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love is messy.
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i truly don’t know. just beautifully shot and acted, quite perplexed while watching this. it was just shocking to watch, not knowing where else could there go about presenting the love for themselves, others and the people in the between. god bless the taxi drivers in this movie, they hold the main characters pursuit, or escape, from love there as an option. i mean, man-
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Cassavetes at his funniest and most absurd, but also his most poignant. You can really feel him saying goodbye. To his friends and his casts and his crews. To all the previous films. To all of it. But like everything else in his life, it’s entirely on his own terms. “If anyone calls, just say I died.”
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gena rowlands there will never be another one like you
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all you need is love
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互いに支え合いながらも傷つけ合う兄妹の関係を描いた作品で、正直かなり長尺で密度の濃い心理劇だった。愛情表現の不器用さが容赦なく描かれている、観るのに集中力がいる作品。 演技陣の生々しい演技には圧倒される部分があった。正直理解しがたい部分も多かったけど、家族という関係の複雑さを大胆に描く姿勢には強い熱量を感じた一本だったと思う。
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如午夜厕所水管滴水声般的对话表演，你冲不掉也停不下来。
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“O amor é tudo. O amor é tudo, apenas lembre-se disso.” Uma narrativa sobre a afeição que não representa um romance tradicional. Ou talvez represente, contudo não do modo que você prevê. Trata-se de como a paixão impacta os indivíduos. Trata-se de como esse sentimento nos transforma; como nos impulsiona; como nos deixa tão angustiados que realizaríamos qualquer loucura para resgatar essa sensação quando ela desaparece. Na essência, a humanidade apenas deseja dar e receber afeto. Porém a existência não é tão simples.
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Gena Rowlands et John Cassavetes sont fabuleux: ils expriment toute l’angoisse de l’être humain perdu dans la vie. Le scénario aurait gagné à être plus orienté dans sa dernière partie qui a tendance à stagner. Direction artistique abominable: couleurs laides, lumières hideuses, cadrages bâclés. Cassavetes aime tant ses personnages qu’il relègue la technique au second plan, comme si elle allait figer leur naturel, alors qu’il aurait pu l’utiliser pour le sublimer; ou bien filmer radicalement en noir et blanc en caméra subjective.
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John Cassavetes’s “Love Streams” is the kind of movie where a woman brings home two horses, a goat, a duck, some chickens, a dog, and a parrot, and you don’t have the feeling that the screenplay is going for cheap laughs. In fact, there’s a tightening in your throat as you realize how desperate an act you’re witnessing, and how unhappy a person is getting out of the taxi with all those animals. The menagerie scene occurs rather late in…
- Synopsis
- Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
- Director
- John Cassavetes
- Writer
- Ted Allan, John Cassavetes
- Studio
- The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English, French, Spanish
- Year
- 1984
- Runtime
- 141 mins
- Germany28 Feb 1984
- USA11 Nov 2014
- Italy27 Apr 1984
- USA24 Aug 1984
- Netherlands29 Nov 1984
- France09 Jan 1985
- Portugal03 Oct 1985
- France24 Feb 2016
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