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Jun 28, 2017 · Faces Places: Directed by JR, Agnès Varda. With Agnès Varda, JR, Jeannine Carpentier, Clemens Van Dungern. Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
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- Documentary, Adventure
- JR, Agnès Varda
- 2017-06-28
Prolific director and pioneer filmmaker of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda, teams up with a renegade travelling companion, the imaginative and rather cryptic street photographer, muralist and installation artist, J.R., on a whimsical tour across the French countryside.
Faces Places. Jump to. 36 wins & 41 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 2018 Nominee Oscar. Best Documentary Feature. Agnès Varda. Rosalie Varda. JR. With this nomination at age 89 years old, Agnès Varda becomes the oldest person nominated for any competitive Oscar. Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards. 2019 Nominee Silver Condor.
Faces Places (French: Visages Villages) is a 2017 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda and JR. It was screened out of competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival where it won the L'Œil d'or award. The film follows Varda and JR traveling around rural France, creating portraits of the people they come across. It was released on 28 ...
Oct 5, 2017 · The latest of these adventures, “Faces Places,” finds Ms. Varda in the company of a younger comrade, the 34-year-old French photographer and environmental artist known as JR.
- JR, Agnès Varda
Oct 6, 2017 · Equal parts breezily charming and poignantly powerful, Faces Places is a unique cross-generational portrait of life in rural France from the great Agnès Varda. Read Critics Reviews
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- Documentary
- PG
Oct 6, 2017 · An enlarged portrait of Guy Bourdain, a one time collaborator of Varda’s who went on to become a celebrated photographer, is put on a concrete bunker that Germans abandoned in World War II and ended up off a cliff and embedded in a beach. A visit to a goat farm inspires an artwork calling for goats to be permitted to own their own horns.
