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TomServo

Able to touch on nearly every human emotion on the entire spectrum and achieve a true catharsis of the spirit without even breaking a sweat. I can't even begin to describe how this movie is so wonderful, it just has to be seen more than anything else.

6 years 7 months ago

jacktrewin

beauty

4 years 11 months ago

Siskoid

Visages Villages (or in the more boring English, Faces Places) kind of acts as a follow-up to Agnès Varda's Mur Murs, as she teams up with muralist JR for a rambling, semi-scripted(?) documentary collaboration, ostensibly about murals and their impact on people (as with Mur Murs), but really about their May-December friendship. They go to small communities in France looking for inspiration, Varda's documentary subjects (perfectly ordinary people) becoming the subjects of JR's giant photographic murals, all the while trying to please one another. From my time in the world of visual arts, I can definitely co-sign that this is how a lot of contemporary art is arrived at, especially in the world of installation. With Varda, there's often a sense that the form is manipulated for narrative purposes and some of the dialog can sound "written", so it's shocking to hear her in improvised conversations with random people and still sound the same way. Even at her mumsiest, the woman is a true wit. She has an ease with turns of phrase and a very precise way of expressing herself. So I don't know anymore, but even when a situation has been engineered (or recreated?), it nevertheless feels truthful. We're happy to take the road trip with them - I love films about artistic process - but it's easy to miss the point. The real subject really is the two of them, and it comes into focus at the end in a most touching manner.

1 year 4 months ago

Emiam

6+/10

5 years 6 months ago

sacmersault

Wonderful documentary, but I have to say that JR seems like an a-hole. He's one of these hipster, so called artists, that are full of themselves.

6 years 2 months ago