Jafar Panahi turns his life into another movie with “Three Faces” in which the director and actress Behnaz Jafari take a storied, allusive road trip through the repressive territory of patriarchial rural Iran

SYNOPSIS

Well-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 have amusing encounters with the charming folk of the girl’s mountain village. But the city visitors soon discover that the protecBon

ORIGINAL TITLE : Se Rokh
DIRECTOR: Jafar Panahi
GENRE : Drama
CAST : BEHNAZ JAFARI, JAFAR PANAHI, MARZIYEH REZAEI, MAEDEH ERTEGHAEI, NARGES DEL ARAM
COUNTRY : Iran
LANGUAGE : Farsi with English
subtitles
YEAR OF PRODUCTION : 2018

CRITICS REVIEWS
3 Faces is a lovely, ineffably moving meditation… Like much of
his recent work, this modest drama slowly segues from a low-key
mystery to a casual survey of how women — especially actresses
— have been demonised by their countrymen.” – Screen Daily

“An exceptional work.

It’s modest but profound, leisurely but urgent, a portrait of a
country disguised as a meandering road movie.” – The Wrap