The Face of Love (2014)
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Critic Consensus: Perhaps worth checking out if only for the opportunity to see reliably powerful work from Annette Bening and Ed Harris, The Face of Love undermines its leads' performances with a scattershot script and aimless direction.
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as Roger Stillman
as Garret Mathis/Tom Young
as Ann
as Nikki Lostrom
as Jan
as Summer
as Sushi Chef
as Bartender
as Nicholas
as Bell Boy
as Gardener
as Jan
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The Face of Love's story runs and blotches like cheap mascara.
Many are going to find the plot questionable and the protagonist's actions deplorable. But for those who've experienced loss and grief that seems irreparable, it is a film that will strike a deep and melancholy chord.
Old age, romance, grief, delusion and desperation all intersect in "The Face of Love," a far-fetched tale that nevertheless manages to be affecting.
What's mesmerizing here is what happens in Bening's eyes, in her complicated smiles, in her eloquent quiet.
Bening and Harris are great actors, and they fill their roles as completely as they can, given the limitations of the soggy and implausible script by Matthew McDuffie and director Arie Posin.
Like so much about this film, the finale hints at Hitchcock but settles for soap opera.
Audience Reviews for The Face of Love
This one hit close to home for me as a Widow. I watched this lonely and broken on Valentines Day, asking myself if I could deal with another man looking like my husband. It was strangely therapeutic for me. Beautiful
The intention was surely a love story but here we have creepiness as a woman pursues a man who looks exactly like her dead husband. The actors work well however in that creepiness up until the film makers take the easy out of an ending with a bow on top.
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Annette Bening and Ed Harris up against pure corn and soap.
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The Face of Love Quotes
| Nikki Lostrom: | Tom! [pause] |
| Garret Mathis/Tom Young: | I believe that's the first time you've said my name. |
| Tom: | You are something else. I could take a bath in how you look at me. |
| Tom: | You are something else. I could take a bath in how you look at me. |
| Tom/Garrett: | "Did you ever love me?" |
| Nikki: | "I love you too." |