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Faces Places (12A)
(Visages, Villages)

Dir. Agnès Varda, JR
94 mins | 2017 | France
Documentary
French with English subtitles

Showing Times: 

• Mon 15 Oct: 7.30pm
• Wed 17 Oct: 1.30pm
• Thu 18 Oct: 7.30pm

Marking her long-awaited return to filmmaking the iconic 90-year-old director Agnès Varda forges an unlikely partnership with enigmatic photographer JR as they embark on a road trip unlike any other.

Sharing their lifelong passion for images they take to the road in a unique collaboration and set about exploring the villages and small towns of rural France. Inspired by the people they meet the pair create large-scale portraits and plaster them across unconventional locations.

This heart warming insight into unnamed communities, documented here in Varda’s typically tender, playful and humanist manner won the Golden Eye Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature award at this year’s Academy Awards Faces Places is a deeply charming and life-affirming look at not only the subtle power of community but the inspiration that can emerge from the most unexpected of friendships. 

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix