Faces Places – 6

On the plus side: A love letter to France, its small towns and its people (the French title, Visages Villages, says it better). The art of JR – huge black-and-white photo portraits pasted on local walls – that makes you smile.
The negative: whereas in many documentaries I am amazed how people ignore the fact they’re being filmed, here I felt every scene was played for the camera. The setup was hokey, the dialogue unnatural, and I never felt the “genuine affection” between JR and Agnes Varda that I sensed I was supposed to feel. What was Agnes Varda even doing in the picture? There were cute moments, but the whole was less than the sum of its parts, and could have been 20 minutes shorter without a complaint from me.

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