The Swindon Film Society has one last filmic treat for you as we head into Christmas which will be screened on 11th December.
Faces Places is charming, eye-opening, and consistently hilarious, a photographic road trip through a series of French villages by two new friends, the 88 year old iconic director Agnès Varda and 33 year old JR, a hipster artist known for his enormous photographs pasted onto huge outdoor backdrops, highlights the changes to rural life
… What holds this deliberately meandering trip together is the relationship between JR and Varda. Their warmth and consideration for each other means they can joke together constantly. It seems as if they have been cross-generational best friends for an eternity.
… Faces Places really is a sheer delight from beginning to end. A genuinely life-affirming film, charming and understanding, the stories it tells may be everyday but they are also funny and intriguing and, crucially, never patronising.
Like many of Varda’s docs, Faces Places is also about another icon: Varda herself. She may be barely five feet in her cotton socks, but this moving study of community and memory reminds us she’s a colossus too. Jamie Dunn, The Skinny.
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11 Dec 2019 |
Faces Places (Agnès Varda, France, 2017) |
94′ |
12A |
