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.
24 July 1935, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
5 November 1954, Florida, USA
1 May 1945, New York City, New York, USA
1 May 1947, New York City, New York, USA
September 14, 1963 in Miami, Florida, USA
9 December 1929, New York City, New York, USA
August 24, 2014
a soul rattler.
March 09, 2006
A risk taking highly emotional drama about love, loneliness, making a connection and desire.
January 01, 2000
John Cassavetes's career of risk taking comes to a climax in this rich, original, emotionally magnificent 1984 film.
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.
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.
May 20, 2003
There's no other American director who can do what John Cassavetes does on the screen.
September 22, 2014
[Cassavetes'] final performance is so powerful ... Rowlands, of course, rises to meet his performance.
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.
March 31, 2006
This is a great film, and worthy of the effort it takes to sit through it.
November 15, 2005
Love Streams is at once a culmination of the director's obsessions and his most atypical film.
August 15, 2003
One of Cassavetes' most maddening films, but also one of his most wondrous and special.
