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MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ. A love story by John Cassavetes, poignant and sometimes hilarious, with stunning performances by Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel...
Cassavetes' earlier Faces and Husbands dealt with the terrible toll exacted by emotional commitment. Minnie and Moskowitz deals with the positive, sometimes desperate need for that same commitment. Its theme, familiar but here recharged with emotion, is the search of two people for an anodyne to loneliness. Created in a mood of sustained ebullience, it is his lightest, most accessible film, and one of the few movies in recent times that could be called joyous...
...text might have been taken from Eleanor Rigby: "All the lonely people, where do they all come from?/ All the lonely people, where do they all belong?" Seymour Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel) is a manic parking-lot attendant who tries to meet girls by the unconvincing and always unsuccessful expedient of claiming prior acquaintance. Consequently, he spends a lot of time alone at the movies...
...dead-end affair with a married man. She spends a lot of time at the movies too, doting on the soft-focus images of her dreams. "Florence," she tipsily confides to a friend late one night, "I never had a Charles Boyer in my life." Instead, she gets Seymour Moskowitz, who pursues her with the fierce dedication of a sans-culotte storming the Bastille. His final victory makes for one of the rarest screen events: a believable and totally appropriate happy ending...
Although Minnie and Moskowitz is Cassavetes' most carefully contained and controlled movie, the momentum sometimes lags. The cinematography is too often cursory, and there are too many scenes staged in parking lots, on staircases, or in bathrooms. Cassavetes remains oblivious to such things. It is his major fault and his greatest virtue: he cares more for his characters than for his audience...