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3 Faces(سه رخ)

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Iran · 2018
1h 40m
Director Jafar Panahi
Starring Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei
Genre Drama

The famous actress Behnaz Jafari has no idea what to do when she receives a video in which a young girl begs for help after her family has refused to allow her to study at Tehran Theatrical University. Moved (if somewhat exasperated) by the girl's plight, Behnaz drives to her village, to see if she might be able to help.

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75

The A.V. Club by A.A. Dowd

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 by Eric Kohn

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

75

The Film Stage by Giovanni Marchini Camia

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.

60

CineVue by John Bleasdale

Panahi keeps everything as softly spoken as his own onscreen presence and yet some of those quiet observations are devastating.

60

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

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.

75

Slant Magazine by Sam C. Mac

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.

70

Time by Stephanie Zacharek

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.

85

TheWrap by Steve Pond

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

Screen International by Tim Grierson

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.

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