Movie Review/Summary: Faces Places
Faces Places is film documentary based on following the adventures of two people. One is named Agnes Varda, a well-known Belgian film maker who was close to 90 years old. The other is a French street artist and photographer that goes by the name JR, who is in his 30s. Despite the large age gap between the two, this duo goes on to make quite a touching documentary. The documentary largely focuses on the people that JR and Agnes encounter during their travels across France. The pair traveled in a small van shaped like a camera, which is also coincidentally equipped with photographing equipment that aids alongside the projects they work on. They stop by and visit several villages and towns in France, photographing the locals and applying their faces to a mural in some unique way, shape, or form that grabs the attention of people walking nearby, usually on a landmark that can’t be missed. One such example of their works is when they approac...