CINEMA
Review:
Love Streams
Directed by John Cassevetes; screen
play by Ted Allan and John Cassa
vetes; based on a play by Ted Allan;
starring John Cassavetes, Gena Row
lands, Seymor Cassel, Diahnne Ab
bott.
You've got to be bordering on
either genius or insanity to create
a work that is wild and crazy and
emotionally draining and makes
perfect logic simply because it isn't
logical. The work is John Cassa
vetes' Love Streams and it is as
crazed as they come.
Cassavetes plays author Robert
Harmon, a lonely bachelor with a
houseful of women (some of
whom he doesn't know) and a fas
cination for California night life.
Gena Rowlands is Sarah Lawson,
a neurotic, unstable woman work
ing her way through divorce and
the loss of her daughter, who re
fuses to live with someone as
genuinely strange as Sarah (she
visits dying people for relaxation).
They are both impulsive, slightly
nutso people who really do belong
together, but are never united un
til about two-thirds of the way
through the picture. The moment
Sarah pulls up to Robert's house
for a surprise visit (they greet each
other as old, dear friends), Robert
is on his way to Las Vegas with his
son.
Cassavetes' world is totally un
predictable; his characters' irra
tional, impulsive actions are
meshed with the randomness of
events in their lives. Robert's son,
whom he hasn't seen since birth, is
dropped off by his mother out of
nowhere. They spend a night in
Las Vegas, where Robert leaves
the kid overnight in a hotel room
while he goes to pick up women,,
and then brings him home, never
to see him again. (This is one
John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands in Love Streams.
small episode in the life of Robert,
given maybe half an hour of
screen time, and then dropped as
quickly as it is introduced.)
If Robert is impulsive, Sarah is
wildly spontaneous. After taking
a disastrous vacation in Europe,
she drops in on Robert out of no
where. Sensing Robert's emptiness
(not unlike herself), she decides to
buy him a baby. A farm is more
like it; what began as a pet dog
turned into a veritable zoo, a
menagerie which practically takes
the house. A bemused
over
Robert accepts the creatures for
fear of hurting Sarah with rejec
tion. For all of their failures in life,
they love each other deeply.
The performances are as deeply
felt as the crazed screenplay. Cas
savetes epitomizes impulse; his
face is never still, his eyes wander
as he talks, his hands fidget con
stantly. Rowlands is a veritable
dynamo of emotion, all but burst
ing at every moment. Apart from
her own irrational spheres, she
releases her tension and troubles
through vivid, bizarre dreams and
fantasies, which for her are almost
reality.
Love Streams is a quirky,
bizarre study of human relation
ships, all the more real because it
unfolds as randomly as real life.
The characters are as passionate
as they are lonely, and they need
each other more than anything
else. It's a unique vision of life that
Cassavetes presents, and a unique
kind of picture. Engrossing and
fascinating, Love Stream is as
strange an outlook on human rela
tionships as you're likely to find.
—Sean Axmaker
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