Faces is a multi-narrative feature film set across four storylines that follow a group of characters as their lives begin to unravel. Aisha is in a marriage that has become stale. When her wish to get pregnant finally becomes reality, she receives some very unexpected news. Louie and Gaspard are a gay couple who are happily in love but when Louie’s female financée suddenly shows up in the picture, all that they hold dear begins to fall apart. Adam and Luke are best friends, but an attack on Adam at a party threatens to create a schism between them. Sindiso runs a charity for women to which she has dedicated herself. When the centre begins to have financial troubles with the real risk of closing, Sindiso has to question her fundamental motivations.
Acting
Terry Pheto's quiet devastation in Aisha's revelation scene.
Writing
Ambitious multi-thread structure that dares to ask: what if everything sucks?
Director
Joseph A. Adesunloye
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Joseph A. Adesunloye is British-Nigerian, and the film quietly explores diasporic identity through Aisha and Sindiso's storylines without making it the central thesis.
The 2.6 TMDB rating is brutal but telling — this film asks hard questions without comforting answers, and audiences punished it for that refusal.
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