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3 Faces
SummaryWell-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 h...

Directed By:Jafar Panahi

3 Faces

Metascore
Generally Favorable
78
User score
Generally Favorable
6.4
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
78
89% Positive
16 Reviews
11% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Sep 8, 2018
100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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.
Mar 8, 2019
88
RogerEbert.com
Panahi can’t help but flaunt optimism wherever he sees it — he lets it rise above it all despite the odds.
Mar 28, 2019
80
Los Angeles Times
To describe 3 Faces as a multi-generational portrait would not be entirely inaccurate, though it would risk divesting the movie of its quotidian poetry, its deep reserves of mystery and its rich rewards for an open-hearted audience. Sometimes, as these characters understand by journey’s end, it’s important to go and discover the truth for yourself.
Mar 8, 2019
75
New York Post
Panahi, who defied a filmmaking ban from the Iranian government to make this, is a director always worth supporting.
May 14, 2018
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.
Feb 14, 2022
70
Little White Lies
Perhaps a little slacker than some of his previous outings, but Panahi’s commitment and courage shine through.
May 14, 2018
60
The Guardian
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.
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Generally Favorable
6.4
65% Positive
11 Ratings
24% Mixed
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12% Negative
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May 6, 2019
4
Lajaleaa
- Se Rokh (2018) - . "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, 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.
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Production Company:
  • Jafar Panahi Film Productions
  • Kino Lorber
Release Date:Mar 8, 2019
Duration:1 h 40 m
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Hamburg Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Oslo Films from the South Festival
• 2 Nominations
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