Synopsis
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actor Behnaz Jafari travel to a tiny village after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbidden her from studying acting. Amusing encounters abound, but they soon discover that the local hospitality is rivaled by the desire to protect old traditions.
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Cast
- Behnaz JafariBehnaz Jafari
- Jafar PanahiJafar Panahi
- Marziyeh RezaeiMarziyeh
- Maedeh ErteghaeiMaedeh
- Narges Del AramMarziyeh's Mother
Recommandations
- 85
TheWrap
Three Faces is typical of the canny director’s output in the way it’s modest but profound, leisurely but urgent, a portrait of a country disguised as a meandering road movie. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
The three main characters are all vividly sketched. - 80
Screen Daily
3 Faces can sometimes feel like a whimsical doodle without much forward momentum. But that placidness belies a certain degree of melancholic resignation on Panahi’s part, for himself and his homeland. - 75
The A.V. Club
Panahi has frequently blurred the line between cinema and reality; here, he builds the search for that line into the work itself, even flirting, playfully, with a self-critique. - 75
IndieWire
Even as Three Faces staggers along, it maintains the unique blend of introspection and intrigue that defines this singular director’s talent. - 75
Slant Magazine
Whenever Panahi's architecturally rigorous study of the self, society, and artistic communion threatens to get too self-conscious or loaded, the filmmaker tends to leaven the tension with humor and gentle irreverence. - 75
The Film Stage
The director’s characteristic humanism and rejection of easy judgments suffuses the film with sincere empathy – refreshingly, he acknowledges his own role in the entrenched patriarchal culture he’s critiquing, both as a man and film director. As such, when 3 Faces closes on a bittersweet note, the hopeful gesture of its closing image feels neither cheap nor unearned. - 70
Time
Although 3 Faces is far from Panahi’s best work, it’s still a solid primer on how much a skilled filmmaker can achieve with very few resources.
