Agnès Varda’s first film in nine years is, like 2008’s The Beaches of Agnès, rooted in her past, while also addressing her finite future. Faces Places is a stylized road movie co-directed with JR, a pseudonymous Parisian street artist, but the echoes of Varda’s French New Wave origins ripple across the journey. The 33-year-old JR, as the 88-year-old Varda’s voice-over … [Read more...]