Love this! Such a sweet friendship and a trip through France that does not revolve around Paris. Also love the great footage of Varda's early photography.
Faces Places (Visages, villages)
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In this unique documentary, director Agnès Varda and street artist JR journey through rural France, forming an unlikely friendship through their spectacular collaborative works inspired by their chance encounters. As they take photographs of locals and turn them into large-scale artwork, Varda and JR learn about their subjects' lives and communities.
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Screen Daily by Allan Hunter
Invested with a real sense of joy, Faces Places is also something of a lament for a fast disappearing France.
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Faces Places reveals itself as a powerful, complex and radical work.
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Screen International by Allan Hunter
Invested with a real sense of joy, Faces Places is also something of a lament for a fast disappearing France.
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IndieWire by David Ehrlich
While all of the people they meet are delightful characters who the film manages to milk for every ounce of their personality, Varda and JR inevitably emerge as the real stars here.
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The Guardian by Jordan Hoffman
If there’s a message in Visages, Villages (both to us, and from Varda to her young friend) is that one does not need to be a tortured and nasty person to make great art. She is living and still-working proof.
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Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Sheer perfection – that's the phrase that springs to mind when describing the humanist miracle that is Faces Places, the year's best and most beguiling documentary.
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Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
The film is an intensely personal record, yet also a universal contemplation. Faces Places leaves the viewer with a sense of the glories of images and communication – sometimes random, sometimes specific, always continual and cumulative.
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Washington Post by Ann Hornaday
Faces Places is a film of sheer joy, its exuberance surpassed only by its tenderness and purity of purpose.
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Boston Globe by Ty Burr
The documentary is an absolute delight, but it has a faith in everyday folks that feels both stalwart and melancholy, aware that these are exactly the people being swept away by the tides of modernity. It’s a sociopolitical cri de coeur disguised as a vacation.
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Little White Lies by Sophie Monks Kaufman
Faces Places is a subtly self-reflexive documentary that swims against this tide, inviting audiences to see that filmmaking is a process of having conversations with people, and enveloping each individual and their private creativity within the wider collaborative process. Art is a form of social work or, rather, it can be with the right people at the helm.
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TheWrap by Dave White
A wonderfully humane, funny, and moving chapter in Varda’s documentary phase.
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Vox by Alissa Wilkinson
Visages, Villages is quite a moving film, and speaks to a particular cultural mindset that knits art into the fabric of public life.
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Variety by Owen Gleiberman
Agnès Varda, in the glory of her golden years, has become a humanist magician.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Todd McCarthy
The two creators hit it off famously and collaborate with great ease on a journey driven by mutual curiosity and creative application.
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RogerEbert.com by Glenn Kenny
Agnes Varda is almost 90 years old and she is still making fantastic films. Searching, compassionate, provocative, funny, sad ones. This is one of them. You should see it, and then go dancing in the streets.
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Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard
Agnès Varda and JR's film develops into something approaching a manifesto for the possibility of shared happiness.
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The Playlist by Bradley Warren
The collaborative energy between the two makes for an endlessly charming documentary, as “Faces Places” manages to look forwards and backwards with touching insight.
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