Agnès Varda and JR
Faces Places
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A late-career triumph of lovingly handcrafted humanism, Agnès Varda’s Academy Award–nominated penultimate film sees the octogenarian director joining forces with the thirty-something street photographer JR. Crisscrossing rural France in their roving camera-mobile—a truck that produces larger-than-life portraits of the people they meet, which are then pasted onto local walls—the pair encounter an array of farmers, former miners, dockworkers, and others whose stories form a collage of a country where meaningful traditions persist in the face of encroaching modernity. A detour-rich road movie, a charming intergenerational buddy film, and an ode to artisans of all stripes, Faces Places finds Varda making new memories while revisiting old ones, yielding what is ultimately a bittersweet, puckishly profound reflection on the ephemeral nature of art, relationships, and life itself.
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Credits
- Director
- Agnès Varda
- Director
- JR
- Written by
- Agnès Varda
- Written by
- JR
- Produced by
- Rosalie Varda
- Agnès Varda’s assistant
- Julia Fabry
- Director of production
- Cecilia Rose
- Coproduced by
- Charles S. Cohen
- Coproduced by
- Julie Gayet
- Coproduced by
- Nadia Turincev
- Coproduced by
- Nichole Fu
- Coproduced by
- Étienne Comar
- Associate produced by
- Émile Abinal
- Cinematography by
- Claire Duguet
- Cinematography by
- Nicolas Guicheteau
- Cinematography by
- Valentin Vignet
- Cinematography by
- Romain Le Bonniec
- Cinematography by
- Raphael Minnesota
- Cinematography by
- Roberto De Angelis
- Cinematography by
- Julia Fabry
- Edited by
- Agnès Varda
- Edited by
- Maxime Pozzi-Garcia
- Music by
- Matthieu Chedid
- Artistic director, collages
- Guillaume Cagniard
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