i love you, agnès, and i'll fight jean luc godard for you.

Agnes Varda Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Delight People

the amélie of documentaries?

jean luc godard is a dirty rat

i’m agnès sitting while JR does all the work

Friendship ended with JEAN-LUC GODARD
Now
JR
is my
best friend

Agnès Varda: i’m just a tiny lady with a lot of love in my heart for everyone!!!! Not you godard you can go choke.

I need there to be a TV series wherein Agnès Varda and JR wander the world in search of the mysterious JLG. At the end of every episode, he leaves a cryptic, taunting clue. Like The Fugitive, but with art and sunglasses.

Cute and endearing, but I think the parts that are obviously over-dramatized really didn’t work for me. And once you get the crux of what this tour is going to be, it feels like you’re fighting against the urge to find it a liiiiiiiil tedious. But remember, I also called it cute and endearing!

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The first step of a healthy world: conversation. Varda and JR drive through France - a place, like any other, which has changed and will continue to change - and *talk* to people. They consider their values, hopes, stories, and regrets. And no matter who they are or what they stand for, the camera is open to them, and so are Varda and JR. That Faces Places could be considered naive or saccharine is misguided - it's just the initial handshake and face-to-face encounter which matters here, and the faces they capture, the art they create, is limited, specifically, to the time and perspectives they've shared. Their journey finds significance in how much they accomplish in recognition of individuals, communities, and spaces. It's how Varda sees and JR gains experience and how one of the art-pieces washes away in the surf - the acceptance, and kindness, in being.

It's really nice to tear up from nothing but the utmost pleasantness for a change.

A film that feels like a random, small gesture of kindness that you'd casually witness on the street and give no particular thought about, but later fondly reminisce as the organic demonstration of unassuming righteousness that everyone kind of involuntarily craves to keep going. Just ridiculously delightful and life-affirming without remotely feeling like it's too hard, or in fact, spectacularly sympathetic exactly because of it. Confirms what I always knew at heart, that Godard's shittiness knows no bounds, and that I desperately need to get into Agnès Varda's filmography. I'll be thinking of that moment where a factory worker magnificently nonchalantly defines the whole concept of art in a simple rhetorical question and wishes everyone a nice day for a long time.

Lol the hate for Jean luc Godard on the reviews for this film is so funny I love this app 

this was so so lovely i loved how willing varda was to share and combine her and jr’s art together, and how open all the people they talked to were. jean-luc godard if i see u its on sight!!!!

It's fun, heartwarming, cool art and down to earth people. It is a bit overhyped, but I can't say I'm disappointed.

Varda is a treasure to cinema.

I love how both Varda and JR are also subjects of this documentary. Their extensive participation becomes more intimate as they meet different kinds of people. It's their journey but it feels as if it is also ours.

Agnes Varda is the grandma I wish I had and JR is the guy who makes everywhere feel like the mural zones in Ipoh and Haji Lane...

big heart energy

this was BEAUTIFUL AND SO WHOLESOME!!!! I love Varda and she loves and gives so much!!! I love her for that. she makes me miss my grandma and makes me cry! 

also I am literally gonna murder jean luc godard for making varda cry.... that slimey son of a bitch!!!! I am gonna track him down and take vengeance!!!!! 😤😤

This film has no business being this FUCKING great.
WOW.

Singapore International Film Festival 2020
Moonlight Cinema (pre-Festival special films)
Watched on The Projector Plus, limited-time VOD link

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It's nice to finally revisit one of my old favourites. Varda & JR's friendship still remains one of the sweetest in cinema. Like, the film itself is so sweet - highlighting all these ordinary people and their work in really extraordinary ways... very heartwarming ❤❤

#VisagesVillages es un buen documental, con aires a legado, codirigido por Agnes Varda y JR Caras. Recorrerán las carreteras de la campiña francesa en busca de pueblos y personas, para tomarles fotos y empapelar muros o estructuras urbanas con reproducciones a gran escala de las mismas.

Agnes reivindica así la belleza de los perfiles más desapercibidos en tiempos de Instagram y en donde todos tenemos una cámara en la mano. Enternece la relación de sus protagonistas, su química y sus vaivenes sentimentales. Y este docu es como un legado, ya que Agnés lo demuestra así. Se percibe ese aroma a nostalgia de la directora, un aroma que conmueve cuando hace mención a un viejo amigo: Godard.
Un viaje que desvela la realidad de una vida que vive a nuestro alrededor y que se dibuja y focaliza de forma certera.

Magnifique.