
Well-known actress Behnaz Jafari is left distraught when she comes across a provincial girl's video plea for help, after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help with the young girl's troubles. They travel by car to the rural northwest, where they have amusing encounters with the charming and generous folk of the girl's mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also ... (Full plot summary below)
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Well-known actress Behnaz Jafari is left distraught when she comes across a provincial girl's video plea for help, after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help with the young girl's troubles. They travel by car to the rural northwest, where they have amusing encounters with the charming and generous folk of the girl's mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also discover that old traditions die hard.
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| Globe and MailKate TaylorIt's a film full of delicate metaphors and gentle humour. |
| London Evening StandardDavid SextonDelightful, although its modesty and quietism make it unlikely to win any prizes. |
| Cinemanía (Spain)Carlos MarañónRebel with a cause, Jafar Panahi will always be the unwitting hero of his own films. [Full review in Spanish] |
| AV ClubA.A. DowdThere's...plenty to chew on in this lovely film, which fights for the liberation of multiple parties, the maker and his subjects. |
| Cinema ScopeAzadeh JafariWhat 3 Faces lacks is Kiarostami's subtlety in creating tension between fiction and documentary, acting and non-acting, and between his own role as mere observer and as the powerful director who shapes reality. |
| Hammer to NailChristopher Llewellyn ReedPanahi ... offers a profound meditation on art and its power to elevate the seeming mundane into sublime beauty |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoThe first hour of 3 Faces is remarkable, featuring some of Panahi's best filmmaking, but it slips through his fingers in the final act. |
| Caimán Cuadernos de CineCristina AparicioThrough the experience of three actresses... the filmmaker reviews not only the film history of Iran, but also that of the country itself and the situation of women. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Caimán Cuadernos de CineCarlos F. HerederoThe film, exemplary in its simplicity, in its transparency and in its ability to register the immediacy of the real, constitutes an explicit tribute to Abbas Kiarostami... [Full review in Spanish] |
| Battleship PretensionDavid Bax3 Faces flirts with the fish out of water comedy of these two big city folks in the country (they literally speak different languages) but its observations are too incisive and sobering to produce many laughs. |