Faces Places
Cohen Media Group | Release Date: October 6, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
94
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Universal acclaim based on 23 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Little White LiesSophie Monks KaufmanDec 1, 2021
Faces Places is a subtly self-reflexive documentary that swims against this tide, inviting audiences to see that filmmaking is a process of having conversations with people, and enveloping each individual and their private creativity within the wider collaborative process. Art is a form of social work or, rather, it can be with the right people at the helm. Read full review
100
Boston GlobeTy 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
Washington PostAnn 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
Austin ChronicleMarjorie 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
Rolling StonePeter 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
The New York TimesA.O. ScottOct 5, 2017
Faces Places reveals itself as a powerful, complex and radical work. Read full review
100
Screen DailyAllan 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
100
IndieWireDavid 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
95
TheWrapDave WhiteOct 6, 2017
A wonderfully humane, funny, and moving chapter in Varda’s documentary phase. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalJoe 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
90
Los Angeles TimesJustin 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
90
VoxAlissa 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
90
VarietyOwen GleibermanMay 28, 2017
Agnès Varda, in the glory of her golden years, has become a humanist magician. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterTodd 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
88
Chicago TribuneMichael 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
88
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
88
Slant MagazineClayton DillardSep 19, 2017
Agnès Varda and JR's film develops into something approaching a manifesto for the possibility of shared happiness. Read full review
83
The PlaylistBradley 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
80
EmpireDavid 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
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 20, 2018
It is a beguiling and unique piece of work. Read full review
75
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
75
San Francisco ChronicleWalter 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
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