Agnès Varda may not see as well as she used to, but her creative vision has never been clearer. If the magnificently moving, funny, life-affirming, and altogether wonderful “Faces Places” (or, in its original language, the much smoother “Visages Villages”) is to be the 88-year-old Belgian auteur’s last film, it will be because of her failing eyesight or the inexplicable difficulty she’s had with funding her work, and not because she’s run out of things to say or novel ways to say them.

If this is to be her last film, then it will be one of cinema’s most extraordinary sendoffs, as poignant and perfect a swan song as Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Wind Rises” or Abbas Kiarostami’s “Like Someone in…

At age 89, acclaimed experimental French filmmaker, Agnes Varda, has collaborated with French muralist J.R., to make one of the most resonant documentaries I’ve seen in years. An unassuming masterpiece, personal and profound.

Agnes Varda was an essential part of the French New Wave, a vibrant film movement of the mid-twentieth century. Her documentary-style, use of locations and non-professional actors, were techniques gleaned by many filmmakers of the movement. Including Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Demy. Married to Demy, Varda was a powerhouse female voice in French cinema. Her wide range of artistic talents, combined with her documentary-style, expressed a very distinctive realism often steeped in feminist issues and social commentary.

It’s hard to define FACES PLACES as simply…