All Your Faces (or, translated from the French, I Will Always See Your Faces, 2023) reflects the attention-paying of filmmaker Jeanne Henry to Western therapeutic culture. She uses French actors in the roles of crime victims and crime perpetrators who converse with each other in what is called a Restorative Justice project. Actors such as Elodie Bouchez play therapy professionals and volunteers for RJ, a social creation which in France does indeed exist. The purpose is, well, “healing,” although one character mentions that restorative-justice represents something that people in our time detest.

A victim named Chloe (Adele Exarchopoulos) could have easily detested it, but I don’t believe she does. Sexually molested as a child by her half-brother, Chloe agrees to meet with him. Counselor Judith (Bouchez) makes the mistake of mentioning forgiveness to Chloe, which angers her, and to be sure Chloe does not forgive her half-brother.

Faces is sometimes moving despite Henry’s personal detachment from the goings-on. She offers no view on the efficacy of the “dialogue.” Yet crime victims here do seem to need psychological healing; they are traumatized. Thefts have occurred (there are no murderers) and not without physical injury. The film is fascinating—not quite flawless but still very good. And although a contempt in many quarters for restorative-justice is inevitable, never do we feel contempt for any of Henry’s characters.

(In French with English subtitles)