Trailer for the documentary Faces Places, which screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Both members of this unlikely coupling are artists of the image, but whereas the ruminative, masterly Varda has spent more than half a century making fiction and documentary films, her hip young companion JR specialises in crafting large-scale photographic portraits. Together, they drive through remote parts of the French countryside, touring farms and villages in a specially equipped van-cum-photography lab.
Taking photos of the people they meet, in all their humility and grandeur, and plastering the huge black-and-white print-outs in prominent local spots, the duo trace out an expansive sketch of the nation as a whole, in a documentary that teems with warmth, compassion and humanity.
1 min 53 sec
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Posted On
August 28, 2017
JR
Writer
JR
Studio
Independent
Release
June 28, 2017
Jean-Luc Godard
JR
Laurent Levesque
Agnès Varda
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