
Agnes Varda, one of the leading lights of France's honored French New Wave cinema era, and professional photographer and muralist, J.R., partake on a special art project. Together, they travel around France in a special box truck equipped as a portable photo booth and traveling printing facility as they take photographs of people around the country. With that inspiration, they also create special colossal mural pictures of individuals, communities and places they want to hono... (Full plot summary below)
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Agnes Varda, one of the leading lights of France's honored French New Wave cinema era, and professional photographer and muralist, J.R., partake on a special art project. Together, they travel around France in a special box truck equipped as a portable photo booth and traveling printing facility as they take photographs of people around the country. With that inspiration, they also create special colossal mural pictures of individuals, communities and places they want to honor and celebrate. Along the way, the old cinematic veteran and the young artistic idealist enjoy an odd friendship as they chat and explore their views on the world as only they can.
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| Little White LiesSophie Monks KaufmanFaces 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. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayFaces Places is a film of sheer joy, its exuberance surpassed only by its tenderness and purity of purpose. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe 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. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversSheer 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. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottFaces Places reveals itself as a powerful, complex and radical work. |
| Screen InternationalAllan HunterInvested with a real sense of joy, Faces Places is also something of a lament for a fast disappearing France. |
| The GuardianJordan HoffmanIf 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. |
| IndiewireDavid EhrlichWhile 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. |
| TheWrapDave WhiteA wonderfully humane, funny, and moving chapter in Varda’s documentary phase. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrThe 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. |