Love Streams | Blu-ray

To say that Love Streams is John Cassavetes' most creative and experimental film is to say that this is an intensely complex and intricate film. Based very loosely on a play of the same name, the director was so passionate about seeing the film to completion that he and his wife (and co-star) Gena Rowlands mortgaged their home in order to raise the needed funds for the production.

Ostensibly the story of a woman who, in the midst of her divorce goes to live with her playboy brother (played by Cassavetes himself), their time together devolves into a hallucinatory dream of love, longing, and the difficulties of familial relationships. 

Simple interactions are obfuscated and made complex as characters spin out into fantasy. The path from the destruction of one nuclear family, into the creation of something new made increasingly unclear as we travel along it. A beautiful, challenging film; the kind only Cassavetes could make.