3 Faces

Name: 3 Faces
Genre: Drama
Released: March 8, 2019
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Maedeh Erteghaei, Marziyeh Rezaei, Narges Delaram

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: March 8, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Maedeh Erteghaei, Marziyeh Rezaei, Narges Delaram

Summary: Well-known actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught by a provincial girl’s video plea for help - oppressed by her family to not pursue her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help solve the mystery of the young girl’s troubles. They travel by car to the rural northwest whereWell-known actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught by a provincial girl’s video plea for help - oppressed by her family to not pursue her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help solve the mystery of the young girl’s troubles. They travel by car to the rural northwest where they have amusing encounters with the charming folk of the girl’s mountain village. But the city visitors soon discover that the protection of age-old traditions is as generous as local hospitality. [Cannes]… Expand

Director: Jafar Panahi

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Kate Taylor

Sep 8, 2018

It’s a film full of delicate metaphors and gentle humour – the locals have elaborate rules for giving a warning honk of the horn on their one-track road but refuse a simple suggestion to widen it – and meanders, sometimes a bit elliptically, to its conclusion. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Mar 7, 2019

An immersive, pleasurably intelligent movie, one that weds documentary naturalism and melodramatic excess with formalist rigor. Read full review

Steve Pond

May 21, 2018

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. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

May 14, 2018

Even as Three Faces staggers along, it maintains the unique blend of introspection and intrigue that defines this singular director’s talent. Read full review

Johnny Oleksinski

Mar 8, 2019

Panahi, who defied a filmmaking ban from the Iranian government to make this, is a director always worth supporting. Read full review

The Film Stage Giovanni Marchini Camia

May 15, 2018

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. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 14, 2018

Jafar Panahi has here created a quietly engaging quasi-realist parable, part of his ongoing and unique creative cine-autobiography, full of intelligence and humility and a real respect for women and for female actors. It is gentle, elusive, and redolent of this director’s mysterious Iranian zen. Read full review

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May 6, 2019

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"Es un toro con bolas de oro." . ( #45/100 ) . Esta búsqueda propone una visión cultural que es tanto irónica cómo valiosa. Teniendo en cuenta la consecuencia política, Jafar Panahi, el Iraní quien presentó en el 2015 "#Taxi" y ganó el #GoldenBear en la #65Berlinale,- Se Rokh (2018) -
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"Es un toro con bolas de oro."
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( #45/100 )
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Esta búsqueda propone una visión cultural que es tanto irónica cómo valiosa. Teniendo en cuenta la consecuencia política, Jafar Panahi, el Iraní quien presentó en el 2015 "#Taxi" y ganó el #GoldenBear en la #65Berlinale, regresa a su zona segura: dentro de un coche. En el, le da un recorrido al público en una espacio estancado en el tiempo que oculta una intención y aspiración. Perseguiremos a nuestros personajes tanto como para ver un gran pedazo de la enigmante y curiosa cultura que subsiste en las lejanías del horizonte, como para estipular que esa existencia se la debe a la juventud, rebelde y hambrienta de información y decisión. Una historia que no cuida actuaciones, con vacías y largas conversaciones y sin decoro visual cuyo poder, por mínimo que sea, está en presentar un lugar cuya lejana locación solo entierra deseos, condena a los valientes y celebra, con inocencia, su ignorancia. ------------------------
This searching proposes a vision of a culture that is as ironic as valuable. Taking into account the political consequence, Jafar Panahi, the Iranian who presented "Taxi" in 2015 and won the Golden Bear in the 65 Berlin International Film Festival, comes back to his safe zone: a car. In it, he gives a tour to the public in a place stuck in time that hides an intention and aspiration. We will chase our characters to see a big piece of the enigmatic and curious culture that remains far away in the horizon to stipulate that its existence its owned to the youth, rebel and hungry of information and decision. A story that doesn't take care of actuation, with long and empty conversations and no visual decorum which it's only power, as little as it is, it's presenting a place which remoteness only buries wishes, condemn the brave and celebrate, with innocence, it's ignorance.… Expand

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