Quartile rating: 7.5/10 · 1 rating
Since 2014, France's restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of heists and violent robberies, agree to join one of these discussion groups alongside offenders Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, all convicted of violent robberies. Meanwhile Chloé, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, prepares for dialogue with her own agressor after learning he has moved back into town.
All Your Faces is a quietly devastating French drama rooted in the real-world practice of restorative justice, a subject rarely explored with this kind of rigor and intimacy on screen. The plot is structurally bold — weaving together multiple victim-offender pairings without melodrama, allowing the complexity of trauma, guilt, and forgiveness to breathe naturally. The ensemble acting is uniformly exceptional, with non-professional and professional actors alike delivering performances of raw authenticity. The novelty is genuine: the film occupies a singular moral and emotional space, neither sensationalizing violence nor offering easy catharsis, which makes it a truly distinctive piece. Cinematography is restrained and functional — close-up, observational work that serves the material without drawing attention to itself, landing solidly but not memorably. The ending, like the film's ethos, resists resolution, which is philosophically honest but may leave some viewers wanting more emotional culmination.