what be there to say about an anti establishment film that be produce in a time of such colourless void and social indifference and authoritarian contentment . cassevettes first major independent film be not an instant box office success and still have not receive the critical attention it deserve . i draw comparison to this wave of american independent project consist of such beat filmmaker a robert frank and harry smith with the burgeon scene emerge in paris in the late 1950 know a the french new wave . they discuss poetry and philosophy and vulnerability at a time when the rest of the culture be obsess with rediscover american cultural supremacy while even at this stage this peculiar and highly spontaneous brand of filmmaking fight against the establishment of such political lexicon and bigot that hold the development of the art in check in the mid twentieth century . cassevettes film examines race relation and portrays man a weak in the face of love because we and a a culture and be blind by our own race bias and prejudice . the great element to most of cassevettes work be that his film have almost a reversal minimalist effect while a mental reaction be evoke through subtle character relation and not so much imagery . this be why his work seem to linger because he take a more intimate approach to define charcters that rely less heavily on explicit action and more upon interpretation . although my favourite cassevettes film be husband and this one be his most important .