Three faces

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Movie
German title Three faces
Original title Se rokh
Country of production Iran
original language Persian
Publishing year 2018
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jafar Panahi
script Jafar Panahi ,
Nader Saeivar
production Jafar Panahi
camera Amin Jafari
cut Mastaneh Mohajer,
Panah Panahi
occupation
  • Behnaz Jafari: as herself
  • Jafar Panahi: as himself
  • Marziyeh Rezaei: as herself
  • Maedeh Erteghaei: as herself

Three faces (original title: Se rokh ) is a film by the Iranian director Jafar Panahi . The film was released in German theaters on October 4, 2018. The film was banned in Iran, and the director has been banned from his profession since 2010.

action

Actress Behnaz Jafari and Jafar Panahi drive to north-west Iran, to east Azerbaijan . From there, Jafari had reached the cell phone video of the young Marzieh: The girl wants to study acting in Tehran and has already been accepted at the drama school. However, the parents refuse the daughter permission to begin her education. Marzieh claims in the video that she tried several times to reach Behnaz Jafari in order to mediate between her and the parents. Jafari never called back and was therefore to blame for Marzieh's suicide . This is then apparently recorded on the video.

Jafari and Panahi now want to find out whether the girl really killed herself or whether the video was manipulated. On the trip to Marzieh's home village, they meet an old woman who is lying in her own grave, are invited to a wedding and learn about local traffic regulations on narrow mountain roads. Throughout the film, the lines between fiction and documentary become blurred .

Eventually the two arrive in Marzieh's village and learn how the ominous cell phone video came about. Shahrzad also plays a role in this - an actress who was celebrated before the Islamic revolution and now impoverished and lives alone on the outskirts of the village. The artist retains a precarious autonomy in her tiny hut: although the villagers avoid her, she can pursue her artistic interests fairly undisturbed.

production

The film had its German premiere on October 4th at the Hamburg Film Festival . Distribution in Germany is world cinema .

Three Faces is the fourth film Jafar Panahi has made since being banned from working in 2010.

Jafar Panahi had his daughter in France send him a camera and then set off on a trip with the Iranian actress Behnaz Jafari. The two drove to the northwest of the country where Panahi's family comes from.

reception

Three faces has so far convinced 95 percent of the Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 7.8 out of a possible 10 points. For Katja Nicodemus von der Zeit , Drei Faces is “about acting and the price that a woman in Iran is willing to pay for it”. She sees the director here, as in other films, as accomplices of his actresses. Fahimeh Farsaie , on the other hand, criticizes the IranJournal for the fact that the protagonists fall victim to a script that does not differentiate the female characters enough . It also certifies Panahi's film an "unreflected ethnological view". In many media, the blurring of fiction and documentary film and the ingenious interweaving of the various levels of reality are praised. In addition, there is widespread admiration for the filmmaker's ability to make films despite being banned from working, and Panahi's directorial work is compared to that of Abbas Kiarostami .

Awards

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Individual evidence

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  6. ↑ a b Katja Nicodemus: Three heroines and their accomplices. In: zeit.de. Zeit Online GmbH, December 26, 2018, accessed on January 25, 2019 .
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