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Faces Places (2017)

6.9

Movie

France
French
Documentary
2017
AGNÈS VARDA, FEMALE DIRECTOR
Agnès Varda, Amaury Bossy, Jean-Luc Godard
94 min

What it's about

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

The take

What happens to genius and complex filmmakers once they reach old age? Agnès Varda at 89 is one example. She maintains an interest in the same deep questions but portrays them in a casual way - basically tries to have a little more fun with things. She finds a friend in JR, a young artist with a truck that prints large portraits. Together they go around French villages (the French title is “Visages Villages”), connecting with locals and printing their photos on murals. Their interactions are researched, but not worked. In fact, they are deeply improvised. Because of this and because the movie is structured in an episode format, it will completely disarm you. And when you least expect it you will be met with long-lasting takes on mortality, loss, but also gender, the environment and the evasiveness of life and art.

Comments

Can’t say I agree with the vouch % of this movie. I found it too worked. There were a couple of interesting moments but I couldn’t get over the feeling I was being talked to as if I were a 3-year-old.

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