Your Face

1987 Directed by Bill Plympton

A tenor, in suit and tie, with a receding hairline, sings a ballad to his love, “Your Face Is Like a Song,” to simple piano accompaniment.

Maureen McElheron

Alternative Titles

Tu cara, Az arcod

comedy animation music

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Popular reviews

Review by Evan “Kaizō Haya-shill” Pincus ★★★½

More of a showpiece for what Plympton is capable of as an animator than any sort of coherent statement, but, like, he’s such a particular artist that an academic exercise in facial distortion becomes something both endlessly watchable and, in its own way, weirdly sweet.
Review by Spangle Ze Kankle ★★★★★

This film is kino as shit, his faces have so many meanings AND OH MY GOD A MOUTH JUST OPENED UP ON THE FLOOR WHAT THE FUCK
Review by Edgar Cochran ★★★★

A deconstructive self-portrait of physiognomic wonder. Plympton's most famous is also his funniest and most iconic. Want the most representative sample of Plympton's humor and imagination with anthropomorphism? This should suffice.
77/100
Review by TheCultureShocker 1

Trippy and beautiful.
Review by Pate Duncan ★★★

This is what I look like
Review by Rian ★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

A well-dressed man's face is distorted into a whole bunch of fabulous caricatures [amazingly hand-drawn by Bill Plympton] while he sings ''Your Face,'' a hypnotic little song [actually sung by a woman whose voice ''was slowed by one-third, giving the desired and unusual effect, also making the voice more masculine''] complimenting the beautiful features of an unknown person, who seems to reveal herself in the amusing twist finish. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Review by Joey Shapiro 5

Fuck Tarkovsky, he never made a movie that has a man's nose eat his head whole. POSER!!!
Review by Daniel ★★★★½ 2

Plympton really outdid this when he remade it as a Simpsons couch gag a couple of years ago. I don’t say this lightly, but I think it’s both my favorite Simpsons musical number and my favorite couch gag. I was on shrooms the first time I saw it, and it was one of the most beautiful moments of my life.
Review by Anna ★★★★

weirdly comforting to watch before bed after you've had a long, stressful day
Review by unclenugget

Sometimes I just like to rewatch this one for no real reason.
Review by edwin ★★★★ 1

Magical
Review by georgie ★★★★★

i've been in such a horrible mood for the past hour, and after watching this for 30 seconds i started laughing so so hard. i have no idea what i expected but i am fully LOSING my mind at this right now. masterpiece. cinema. completely unparalleled. 5 stars. why not. i'm feeling edgy

Recent reviews

Review by Orxbane ★★

Criterion Channel
Review by Brewer82091 ★★★★

This is super cool. Didn't know you could do that many things with a face.
Review by Eddie Lozy ★★★★★

Gave another watch. I love this quite a lot and will give it a rating despite being 3 minutes
Review by PaulRuddsCousin ★★★★★

my face?
Review by Anthony Le

My fav
Review by Eric Pereira ★★★★

Lmao what the fuck
Review by Orestes ★★★

Pretty good. Kind of funny. I liked the song.
Review by Sellers Thomas ★★★½

This is what my face looks like
Review by Chris Bacarella ★★★★

Animation 101.
Review by _jagodynski ★★★★★

its fucking perfect

theres a reason this is one of the most iconic short films of all time.

inventive, surreal but unironically beautiful.

actual must see.
Review by mattlaud ★★★★

My first “Plymptoon.” Definitely a good first one. Only 3 or 4 minutes. Plympton is exploring the effect of cartoon physics and tropes on characters drawn with more realism than your average Sunday morning fare. It’s held together by the wonderfully bizarre song the man is singing, and achieves a zen weirdness that feels very 80’s to me, somehow. I feel like this could have played perfectly as an interstitial slotted somewhere during Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life, or like it could have been on TV in the background of a random shot from Blue Velvet. The starchy formalism of the drawing, the maximalist contortions of the face - the 80’s were about perfection, epitomized by the white man…
Review by Leshia Doucet

Hypnotic.