“It’s surprising… But isn’t that what art is made for sometimes?
Well then, have a good day, goodbye.”
Visages, villages (’Faces Places’, 2017), dir. Agnès Varda & JR
A documentary where diminutive octogenarian French New Wave visionary Agnès Varda palls around rural France with lanky young contemporary street artist JR already held a lot of appeal for me, and then JR brought several bemused cardboard cutouts of Agnès to the Oscar nominees luncheon and that was some of the most enjoyable shit I’ve ever seen. I finally watched their movie this past Sunday afternoon while snacking on a slice of cake, and do you know? It was adorable.
Live-blog notes, taken in between bites of cake, available on my Patreon to Bonus Content subscribers ♡