The trailblazing independent auteur John Cassavetes pushes his raw, uncompromising emotional realism to its limit in HUSBANDS (1970), an unflinching portrait of masculinity in crisis.
https://www.criterion.com/films/28827-husbands
Cassavetes joins Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk playing a trio of Long Island men who, following the sudden death of their close mutual friend, channel their grief into an epic, multiday bender that takes them from Manhattan to London in a desperate, debauched quest to feel alive.
By turns painfully funny and woundingly perceptive, this “comedy about life, death, and freedom” (as its tagline stated) stands as perhaps the most fearless, harrowingly honest deconstruction of American manhood ever committed to film.
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