Funny Face

2020

Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 46% · 15 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 46%
IMDb Rating 5.1/10 10 688 688

Plot summary

In a Brooklyn threatened by disfigurement from greedy urban developers, two young people meet in a late-night bodega. Their unexpected bond takes on a romantic tone and brings solace to these two superheroes who are powerless in the face of oppression.

Director

Tim Sutton Photo
Tim Sutton

Top cast

Jeremy Bobb Photo
Jeremy Bobb as American Suit
Jonny Lee Miller Photo
Jonny Lee Miller as The Developer
Victor Garber Photo
Victor Garber as Developer's Father
Cosmo Jarvis Photo
Cosmo Jarvis as Saul
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860.07 MB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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860.24 MB
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dd3186 5 / 10

Had potential but...

Good acting with a dark, brooding, bizarre protagonist. Kept my interest but slow going at times. Some will say this is a story about nothing. For me it felt like a 21st century Dickensian social commentary about the haves and have nots. Would have rated higher if not for lackluster ending.
Reviewed by bob_meg 4 / 10

Mask without a face

OK, I'm done watching Tim Sutton movies.It's not that Sutton isn't talented, but since his visually stunning debut "Pavillion", his creative vision keeps battering the same one wall, like a stymied writer-blocked film student.Especially after "Dark Night", Sutton drew a lot of comparisons to Gus Van Sant, whose "Elephant" was similarly structured and themed. Sure, "Dark Night" meandered, as all of Sutton's films do, but it did it in such a curiously intriguing way, showing you characters and situations that when they weren't odd or slightly askew in a way you had to work to articulate, the film was at bare minimum striking to look at. On a macro level, it had a lot to say."Funny Face" has a premise that seems intriguing, but it's hung on a cast of the dullest characters Sutton has yet created. They aren't exactly unlikable, and for brief periods the boy-girl protag's relationship and shared grief over lives lost/ abandoned does work.But then it's as if Sutton remembered he's also got a plot to run. This constant down and up shifting in the pacing only emphasizes Funny Face's threadbare conceits --- it's attempts to draw parallels between the protagonist and antagonist, and the few sledgehammer blows of symbolism (the pink neon sign was laughable) make it self-conscious and embarrassing. The limited character palettes guarantee all the performances come across as either stilted or overplayed (especially by the villain).If Sutton's previous films did nothing else, they carried a bit of subtlety and grace. Funny Face's repetitive nature and lack of any substantial dialogue, combined with the basic ordinariness or ugliness of it's surroundings and leaden juxtaposition add up to nothing, at least nothing worth sitting still for at 93 minutes.
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