Funny Face

Name: Funny Face
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime
Released: March 30, 2021
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Barzin Akhavan, Cosmo Jarvis, Dan Hedaya, Danny Garcia, Dela Meskienyar

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Gravitas Ventures | Release Date: March 30, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Barzin Akhavan, Cosmo Jarvis, Dan Hedaya, Danny Garcia, Dela Meskienyar, Esther Chen, Jeremy Bobb, Jonny Lee Miller, Lawrence Oliver Cherry, Rhea Perlman, Victor Garber

Summary: A young Muslim woman runs away from her aunt and uncle’s house desperate for a new life, but quickly finds that she must survive on the street. A disturbed young man from Coney Island dons the menacing “Funny Face” mask, transforming himself into a makeshift superhero with a rage disorder as he seeks revenge on the Real Estate Developer ofA young Muslim woman runs away from her aunt and uncle’s house desperate for a new life, but quickly finds that she must survive on the street. A disturbed young man from Coney Island dons the menacing “Funny Face” mask, transforming himself into a makeshift superhero with a rage disorder as he seeks revenge on the Real Estate Developer of a soulless high rise that has displaced his grandparents. Misfit avengers in a changing city, the two embark on a neighborhood odyssey that brings danger, love, and tragedy. And pickles.
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Director: Tim Sutton

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Enrique Acosta

Apr 14, 2021

Funny Face is a rare gem of a film that will keep you guessing from beginning to end, and you’ll be lucky if you get to see it. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Feb 26, 2020

A hypotensive urban fairy tale with not quite enough “tale” to justify the tag, it’s a collection of impressions, in often striking imagery, of a New York borough imagined as a faraway land of rooftops and distant lights and corner bodegas where every day—every moment even—seems to start with “once upon a time.” Read full review

Chris Barsanti

Mar 30, 2021

Tim Sutton is a deft cartographer of how environments can shape its inhabitants. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Feb 26, 2020

As with all of the director’s previous work, Funny Face is electric and moribund in equal measure, the simplicity of its story obscured by the opacity of its telling. The film is so unformed that it feels like its shots might disassociate from each other at any moment, but also so unsubtle that its script could’ve been sky-written over Brooklyn. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Feb 26, 2020

Tim Sutton’s idiosyncratic outsider romance contains moments of haunting oddness, but has a tendency to stab home its points and issues rather emphatically. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Mar 30, 2021

Donnybrook aside, Sutton has largely devoted his career to mood pieces like Dark Night and Memphis where concept is key. In Funny Face, he puts everything in movie-movie-ish scare quotes—a self-defeating approach for a paean to urban authenticity. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Feb 26, 2020

Oddly, Funny Face feels more like a promising but overreaching debut than any of his earlier films, particularly at the level of its slender script, heavy as it is on banal, minimalist dialogue that doesn’t fuel the flickering chemistry between leads Cosmo Jarvis (“Lady Macbeth”) and appealing newcomer Dela Meskienyar as best it could. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Apr 18, 2021

It has a certain alluring style that catches the eye, and that's redeemable, but the dialogue is poor and for the most part I didn't find it convincing, and to some extent it was also kinda vague.

Perhaps more emphasis on the script rather than the technical style would've made somethingIt has a certain alluring style that catches the eye, and that's redeemable, but the dialogue is poor and for the most part I didn't find it convincing, and to some extent it was also kinda vague.

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