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FACES OF NOVEMBER

Robert Drew United States, 1964
The final presidential portrait by Drew Associates, the 12-minute Faces of November, could only stand by at his funeral, a bleak conclusion to these first-hand accounts of the Thousand Days (and then some), which give visceral form to pensive acts of statesmanship.
June 3, 2016
The bleakest of elegies... Drew decided that while the nation grieved, the film—commissioned to document the event—would simply observe Americans watching the funeral. It may be a wordless film, but once again Drew allowed his subjects to speak for themselves.
May 10, 2016
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Faces of November is an experimental documentary about the death of John F. Kennedy, and it epitomizes the observational style of Robert Drew and his Associates group (filmmakers including D.A. Pennebaker, Richard Leacock, and Albert Maysles). At just 12 minutes, Faces offers no voice-over, story, trajectory, or editorializing: it is merely a visual account of mourners at Kennedy's funeral.
April 27, 2016
ABC News president Elmer Lower commissioned Drew to make a film about Kennedy's funeral that resulted in the poetic Faces of November. But the network had no place for a twelve-minute film. According to Drew, it wasn't until Faces won prizes at the Venice Film Festival that an excerpt was shown on a news broadcast.
April 26, 2016
A simple, wordless portrait of a traumatized nation, featuring one pain-stricken close-up after another. Few of the faces are familiar (Jackie and Bobby are seen mostly from a distance), but it doesn't matter—each one clearly speaks for thousands. Without in any way planning it, Robert Drew and his associates pushed the form still further, into the realm of pure art.
April 23, 2016