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3 Faces
Se rokh​

Jafar Panahi  •   Iran  • ​ 2018
100 mins  •  HD  •  M suicide references
In Azeri and Farsi with English subtitles
​​

Defying a ban on filmmaking, Jafar Panahi takes to the road with actress Behnaz Jafari for a funny and incisive film which questions traditional values.

​​“Artful, surprising… thrillingly intelligent ” – LA Times
​
DIRECTOR: Jafar Panahi
PRODUCTION CO: Jafar Panahi Film Production
PHOTOGRAPHY: Amin Jafari
EDITORS: Mastaneh Mohajer, Panah Panahi
WITH: Behnaz Jafari (Herself), Jafar Panahi (Himself), Marziyeh Rezaei (Marziyeh), Maedeh Erteghaei (Maedeh), Narges Delaram (Marziyeh's mother)

FESTIVALS: CANNES

REVIEW

“An artful, surprising and thrillingly intelligent story about a few women trying to make a difference, forging bonds of solidarity in quiet defiance of the repressive, small-minded men in their rural village…

3 Faces may be modest and low-key on the surface, but its surprises are worth preserving, its insights casually profound. At the heart of the story is a mystery: What happened to Marziyeh (Marziyeh Rezaei), a teenage girl and aspiring actress from Iran’s Turkish-speaking Azerbaijan region, who has suddenly gone missing? Before she vanished, Marziyeh, whose family strongly disapproves of her choice of calling, sent an alarming self-shot video to the famed actress Behnaz Jafari (playing herself). Jafari was sufficiently rattled by the footage that she has now come to the girl’s village in search of answers, chauffeured by none other than Panahi himself.

Much of this subtly, bracingly pleasurable movie is spent following Panahi and Jafari as they drop in on the villagers and make inquiries… They drive slowly around the hilly, rocky countryside, along winding mountain roads that are often too narrow to accommodate two cars passing each other in opposite directions – a situation that Panahi turns into an ingenious metaphor for a society mired in tradition for tradition’s sake, unable to see past the end of its patriarchal nose.”

– Justin Chang, LA Times




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