Composer:
Matthieu ChedidVOD (2)
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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. (Criterion)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 2018 - Agnès Varda, JR, Rosalie Varda (Best Documentary Feature)
Independent Spirit Awards
- 2018 - Agnès Varda, JR (Best Documentary Feature)
César Awards
- 2018 - Matthieu Chedid (Best Original Music)
- 2018 - Agnès Varda, JR (Best Documentary Film)
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2017 - Best Documentary
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 2017 - Best Documentary/Non Fiction Film
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2017 - Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary)
Toronto International Film Festival
- 2017 - Agnès Varda, JR (People's Choice Award - Documentary)
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)
- 2017 - People's Choice Award - Best Documentary