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Faces Places

Cohen Media Group | Release Date: October 6, 2017

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94	METASCORE Universal acclaim based on 22 Critic Reviews

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Ty BurrNov 1, 2017

The documentary is an absolute delight, but it has a faith in everyday folks that feels both stalwart and melancholy, aware that these are exactly the people being swept away by the tides of modernity. It’s a sociopolitical cri de coeur disguised as a vacation. Read full review

100

Ann HornadayOct 18, 2017

Faces Places is a film of sheer joy, its exuberance surpassed only by its tenderness and purity of purpose. Read full review

100

Marjorie BaumgartenOct 11, 2017

The film is an intensely personal record, yet also a universal contemplation. Faces Places leaves the viewer with a sense of the glories of images and communication – sometimes random, sometimes specific, always continual and cumulative. Read full review

100

Peter TraversOct 6, 2017

Sheer perfection – that's the phrase that springs to mind when describing the humanist miracle that is Faces Places, the year's best and most beguiling documentary. Read full review

100

A.O. ScottOct 5, 2017

Faces Places reveals itself as a powerful, complex and radical work. Read full review

100

Allan HunterMay 28, 2017

Invested with a real sense of joy, Faces Places is also something of a lament for a fast disappearing France. Read full review

100

The GuardianJordan HoffmanMay 28, 2017

If there’s a message in Visages, Villages (both to us, and from Varda to her young friend) is that one does not need to be a tortured and nasty person to make great art. She is living and still-working proof. Read full review

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David EhrlichMay 28, 2017

While all of the people they meet are delightful characters who the film manages to milk for every ounce of their personality, Varda and JR inevitably emerge as the real stars here. Read full review

Dave WhiteOct 6, 2017

A wonderfully humane, funny, and moving chapter in Varda’s documentary phase. Read full review

Joe MorgensternOct 19, 2017

The buddies in Faces Places are perfectly matched, notwithstanding an age difference of 55 years, so the things that happen during their wanderings around rural France aren’t funny in a conventional sense. They are lovely, surprising and deeply moving. Read full review

Justin ChangOct 12, 2017

Faces Places turns out to be a road movie in more than a merely literal sense. It is at once a roving journey into environments we rarely see in cinema and an incomplete but invaluable map of Varda’s memories. Read full review

Alissa WilkinsonMay 28, 2017

Visages, Villages is quite a moving film, and speaks to a particular cultural mindset that knits art into the fabric of public life. Read full review

Owen GleibermanMay 28, 2017

Agnès Varda, in the glory of her golden years, has become a humanist magician. Read full review

Todd McCarthyMay 28, 2017

The two creators hit it off famously and collaborate with great ease on a journey driven by mutual curiosity and creative application. Read full review

Michael PhillipsOct 26, 2017

This movie, a diary of a freewheeling, far-flung installation art project, combines chance and intuition and a humane eye. Read full review

RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyOct 6, 2017

Agnes Varda is almost 90 years old and she is still making fantastic films. Searching, compassionate, provocative, funny, sad ones. This is one of them. You should see it, and then go dancing in the streets. Read full review

Clayton DillardSep 19, 2017

Agnès Varda and JR's film develops into something approaching a manifesto for the possibility of shared happiness. Read full review

Bradley WarrenMay 28, 2017

The collaborative energy between the two makes for an endlessly charming documentary, as “Faces Places” manages to look forwards and backwards with touching insight. Read full review

David ParkinsonSep 24, 2018

Whether rediscovering La France périphérique or hurtling through the Louvre, Varda and JR make a surprisingly empathetic team and their collaboration is as provocative as it is poetic and poignant. Read full review

The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 20, 2018

It is a beguiling and unique piece of work. Read full review

Movie NationRoger MooreMay 21, 2018

It’s not the most consequential of films, but from first stop to almost the last, it’s a trippy, traveling delight. Read full review

Walter AddiegoOct 25, 2017

Because of age and illness, Varda is losing her sight, and Faces Places, which she co-directed, could be her last film. If so, she’s going out on a high note. Read full review