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Visages, villages (Faces Places) (2017), a documentary film by JR & Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda and JR have things in common: a passion for and the exploration of images in general, and more precisely, for places and for ways of showing, sharing, and exhibiting them. Agnès chose cinema. JR chose to create open air photography galleries. When Agnès and JR met in 2015, they immediately wanted to work together, to shoot a film in France, far from cities, during a trip in JR’s photographic (and magical) truck. Through chance encounters and prepared projects, they reached out to others, listening to them, photographing them, and sometimes putting them on posters. This film also tells the story of Agnès and JR’s friendship, which grew stronger throughout the film shoot, between surprises and teasing, and while laughing about their differences.

“These warm and witty artists get each other, amuse each other, adore each other. Unlikely as it may look, they’re the picture of happiness” – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
“Agnès Varda’s new documentary film, Faces Places, is a testament to her curious, generous, democratic spirit”. – A.O. Scott, The NYTimes
“While Varda and JR ply their trade as visual troubadours, they contemplate their own ideas of what constitutes artistic vision.” – Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
“Faces Places is a one-in-a-million crowd-pleaser that deserves to be seen by the widest audience possible.” – David Sims, The Atlantic
[Seen @ L’Epée de bois, Paris, on Monday 15 January 2018]