Love Streams
Suffering from divorce, Sarah Lawson visits her brother Robert, only finding that he has became a playboy who is made of cigarettes, alcohol, and sexual relationships. As a result, she tries to curb the self-destruction of Robert's life while deal with her own depression. Meanwhile, Robert struggles between his desire to protect his sister and his care-free life.
5 March 1926, Arkansas, USA
21 September 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 November 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 May 1965, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
19 August 1944, USA
18 August 1926, New York City, New York, USA
6 January 1967, Encino, California, USA
May 25, 2015
Its French title, Torrents d'amour, better hints at the overflowing heart of this magnificent melodrama, effervescently bubbling with a charming, infuriating, incorrigible booziness.
November 15, 2005
Love Streams is at once a culmination of the director's obsessions and his most atypical film.
March 31, 2006
This is a great film, and worthy of the effort it takes to sit through it.
January 01, 2000
John Cassavetes's career of risk taking comes to a climax in this rich, original, emotionally magnificent 1984 film.
March 09, 2006
A risk taking highly emotional drama about love, loneliness, making a connection and desire.
September 22, 2014
[Cassavetes'] final performance is so powerful ... Rowlands, of course, rises to meet his performance.
August 15, 2003
One of Cassavetes' most maddening films, but also one of his most wondrous and special.
January 01, 2000
The movie is exasperating, because we never know where we stand or what will happen next. I think that's one of its strengths: There's an exhilaration in this roller-coaster ride through scenes that come out of nowhere.
July 30, 2003
With Israeli filmmakers Golan and Globus watching over him, director John Cassavetes was guilty of less self-indulgence than usual, and the result is one of his best movies ever.
August 24, 2014
a soul rattler.
May 20, 2003
There's no other American director who can do what John Cassavetes does on the screen.
