Love Streams is at once a culmination of the director's obsessions and his most atypical film.

There's no other American director who can do what John Cassavetes does on the screen.

The movie is exasperating, because we never know where we stand or what will happen next. I think that's one of its strengths: There's an exhilaration in this roller-coaster ride through scenes that come out of nowhere.

Co-written by Alan Herman, and adapted from his 1981 play, Love Streams gives [Gena] Rowlands one of her best roles and she runs with it. Sarah may be a loony, but she sure is fun to watch as she bowls in stockings and does back flips in Robert's pool.