Faces Places (2017)

6.9

Movie

France
French
Documentary
2017
AGNÈS VARDA, FEMALE DIRECTOR
Agnès Varda, Amaury Bossy, Jean-Paul Beaujon
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.

Add a comment

UP NEXT 

UP NEXT 

UP NEXT 

Forgotten Love (2023)

The stunning third take of the classic Polish pre-war melodrama

7.7

Hail Satan? (2019)

Forget everything you think you know about the Satanic Temple

8.0

Last Call for Istanbul (2023)

A seemingly generic Turkish romance travel film, until it gets into its second half

7.0

The Monk and the Gun (2024)

Pawo Choyning Dorji depicts Bhutan through this fascinatingly gentle comedy during its shift to democracy

8.1

I Lost My Body (2019)

The Oscar-nominated unconventional animation

8.2

All of Us Strangers (2023)

A devastating queer drama that explores the nature of grief and love through a uniquely supernatural lens

8.8

Cold War (2018)

A quiet Polish masterpiece with ravishing music and dazzling visuals

9.2

Incendies (2011)

Part melodrama, part war thriller, Incendies is gorgeous and heartbreaking from the first scene

9.9

Perfect Days (2023)

This Japanese film is a quaint reminder that joy can be found in the smallest and simplest of things

8.3

Sound of Metal (2020)

Riz Ahmed excels in this piercing drama about a musician losing his hearing.

9.1

Curated by humans, not algorithms.

agmtw logo

© 2024 agoodmovietowatch, all rights reserved.