Movie #1407 "Faces/Places" --- what a wonderful documentary. Dave had seen this in the Chicago film festival and raved about it, and when he said that it was in a few NYC theatre, we sought one out for me to see it while he was taking a photography class. The doc is so creative and humorous and charming! It deals with the merging of a photographer (age 34) and a cinematographer (age 80+) and what chemistry they have! They take a journey through the countryside of France and take pictures of the common people they come across, and then they print them in the truck they are driving in and then put them on the outside walls of buildings to decorate the town, or train cars, or big farm buildings, whatever they find --- it is so cool to see the reactions of these people when they see themselves in such big terms! The stories they weave become the substance of the film and the visuals are these pictures. I don't want to say much more because you want to see the doc unfold while you watch it, but sufficeth it to say that it is a real gem. I give it 5 stars out of 5. Hope you get a chance to see it, and it goes all the way to a nomination for best documentary at the Academy Awards this year!
"FACES/PLACES" PG 2017
A key figure in the emergence of French New Wave cinema in the 1950s, director Agnès Varda's career continues more than 60 years later as she joins photographer and muralist JR for a road trip through France, making art as they go.
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