94
Metascore
23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The GuardianJordan HoffmanThe GuardianJordan HoffmanIf 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.
- 100IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichWhile 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.
- 100Screen DailyAllan HunterScreen DailyAllan HunterInvested with a real sense of joy, Faces Places is also something of a lament for a fast disappearing France.
- 100The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottFaces Places reveals itself as a powerful, complex and radical work.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe two creators hit it off famously and collaborate with great ease on a journey driven by mutual curiosity and creative application.
- 90VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanAgnès Varda, in the glory of her golden years, has become a humanist magician.
- 90Visages, Villages is quite a moving film, and speaks to a particular cultural mindset that knits art into the fabric of public life.
- 88Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardAgnès Varda and JR's film develops into something approaching a manifesto for the possibility of shared happiness.
- 88RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyAgnes 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.
- 83The PlaylistBradley WarrenThe PlaylistBradley WarrenThe collaborative energy between the two makes for an endlessly charming documentary, as “Faces Places” manages to look forwards and backwards with touching insight.