Faces Places (2017) on Netflix
PG20171h 34mDocumentary
Agnès Varda, a filmmaker, and JR, a photographer and muralist 55 years younger, tour rural France in a truck fitted as a photo booth and printing studio. They paste portraits on walls.
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She came to filmmaking with the French New Wave; he is a photographer and muralist 55 years her junior. Agnès Varda and JR ride through villages, small towns, farms and factories across rural France in a box truck that serves as a portable photo booth and a traveling printing facility, photographing the people they meet and enlarging the pictures into black-and-white posters. The pair plaster these portraits on buildings and in public spaces, honoring individuals, communities and places. As they travel the two become friends. Varda often mentions a short film she made in 1961, in which a young man sees everything through dark glasses.
