Husbands

Husbands is a survey of the male midlife crisis as depicted by three friends who abandon home, country, responsibility, civility, and sanity when confronted with their own mortalities in the wake of a beloved friend’s death. It cannot be overstated how alienating this…

cuckoochanel

totally nails the agony of when all you want to do is throw up and your friend won't stop talking

fran hoepfner

Feels less like a film and more like a sociological examination of male relationships - the relationships men have with women, the relationships men have with each other, and the relationships that men have with themself. These men are fundamentally unable to sincerely…

Dante

i think about what Cassavetes said about Love Streams more in relation to Husbands: that it was "so psychologically dangerous, lonely, terrifying and so uncommercial" that they "pretended [they] had a comedy." indeed, as the tagline says: "a comedy about life, death,…

KYK

Gazzara has no brain, Cassavetes has no heart, Falk has no courage, and not a Dorothy to be found anywhere. Truly, there's no place like home.

Mark Asch

i was going to ask if it’s possible to both be in love with & hate a group of men but then i realized that’s pretty much my daily experience with men

Laura

love when men hate themselves

dselwyns

so incredibly real and painful like everything else i've seen from cassavetes. it's definitely called husbands because the three of them are married to each other.

Muriel

What happens when you try to kick it with the bros in your mid 40s, etc...but jokes aside this is a very dark and actually profound examination of the limits of cameraderie - a movie about the value of duties, responsibilities, obligations etc, because of its absence.

Neil Bahadur