13th Nov 20:00 FACES PLACES – Totnes Cinema SOLD OUT

SOLD OUT

Agnès Varda: ‘Memory is like sand in my hand’

Winner of the Golden Eye Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and 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.

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

Varda and JR share a lifelong passion for images and how they’re created, displayed and shared. FACES PLACES sees them exploring the small towns of rural France.

Meeting different groups of people in rural France, they were inspired to create large-scale portraits plastered across unconventional locations.
What followed was a heart-warming insight into hitherto unnamed communities, documented here in Varda’s typically tender, playful and humanist manner. What we also get with Varda is understated depth and an instant understanding that one does not need to be a tortured and nasty person to make great art. She is living and still-working proof.