Synopsis
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
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Cast
- Agnès VardaSelf
- JRSelf
- Patricia MercierSelf
- Amaury BossySelf
- Claude FlaertSelf
- Clemens Van DungernSelf
- Didier Campy ComteSelf
- Jacky PatinSelf
- Jean-Luc GodardSelf
- Jeannine CarpentierSelf
Recommendations
- 100
The Guardian
If 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. - 100
IndieWire
While 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. - 100
Screen Daily
Invested with a real sense of joy, Faces Places is also something of a lament for a fast disappearing France. - 100
The New York Times
Faces Places reveals itself as a powerful, complex and radical work. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
The two creators hit it off famously and collaborate with great ease on a journey driven by mutual curiosity and creative application. - 90
Variety
Agnès Varda, in the glory of her golden years, has become a humanist magician. - 90
Vox
Visages, Villages is quite a moving film, and speaks to a particular cultural mindset that knits art into the fabric of public life. - 88
Slant Magazine
Agnès Varda and JR's film develops into something approaching a manifesto for the possibility of shared happiness.
