Directed by Agnès Varda, JR | France | 93 min
Described by critic Amy Taubin as “an unassuming masterpiece,” Faces Places is an ideal launch point for the series’ focus on late and last works. The film frames an unlikely creative collaboration, bringing together Agnes Varda, titan of French cinema, and the much younger street photographer, J.R. What results is a buoyantly good-humoured road trip across the French countryside, mapping large-format photographs of ordinary citizens on its rural surfaces. Completed two years before Varda’s death in 2019, Faces Places presents an extended and affectionate dialogue between the two artists that retains Varda’s radical edge, still pursuing, in the filmmaker’s words, “the essence of the medium.” The film’s journey is punctuated by a memorable visit to the home of Jean-Luc Godard, posing acute questions about creative collaboration and friendship.
In collaboration with the University of Calgary's Film Department
Part of our Final Frames Series.
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