Faces Places

The acclaimed 89-year-old French filmmaker devotes her latest documentary to portraits of ordinary people.

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Agnes Varda hits the road with a street artist in this chronicle of rural French people and life.

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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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Agnès Varda's latest thrift-shop documentary, about creating oversize images out of ordinary people, confirms that she's the world's most ageless filmmaker.

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Agnes Varda is almost 90 years old and she is still making films. That alone should be cause for dancing in the streets. But wait, there’s more: 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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Throughout, the film develops into something approaching a manifesto for the possibility of shared happiness.

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Above all a treat for art fans and cinephiles fond of French film history, the whimsy and wisdom of “Faces Places” is certain to win over a new generation of Varda and JR fans.

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