2017 · documentary
Faces Places
Directed by Agnès Varda, JR1h 34m2017
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
Our read: Faces Places (2017) reads as a cosy, measured, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Cosy, measured, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- measured
- redemptive
- tender
- signature
- intimate
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“You want a playful French road trip about art, aging, and unlikely kinship.”
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