Faces Places is a wonderful exercise in memory and merriment, in instinct and improvisation.

| Nov 16, 2018

Faces Places is the most melancholy yet uplifting buddy movie you'll see all year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 25, 2018

Varda and JR make a surprisingly empathetic team and their collaboration is as provocative as it is poetic and poignant.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2018

It's more than wandering whimsy, with telling comments on decaying industry and Instagram narcissism and a sting in the tail that can only be described as Godardian.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2018

This is a film that puts old women centre stage and it's the best film that puts old women centre stage since... nope, can't think of one.

| Sep 20, 2018

A beguiling and utterly unique piece of work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2018

A typical, even archetypal, Varda mixture of the combative and the contemplative.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2018

As JR explains, the project is about him and Varda expressing their imaginations on people's terrain, and they do it graciously and with good cheer.

| Mar 8, 2018

"Faces Places" is a lively, fun, stirring tribute to art and its ability to touch people and bring souls together.

| Original Score: A | Jan 26, 2018

There's a chemistry and respect between the two of them, palpable in the film's first moments, that is inspiring. And when the credits roll 89 minutes later, you realize that this is one journey where you never once crankily asked, "Are we there yet?"

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 27, 2017

Anyone who can't enjoy this wise and soulful film has to consider whether they've given up on the movies, and on life.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 2, 2017

[A] delightful, artful road trip ...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 27, 2017

The pair makes an oddly compelling Harold and Maude coupling, touring the countryside in a minibus-cum-box camera and honoring the locals by turning the facades of buildings into ephemeral open-air portrait galleries.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2017

This movie, a diary of a freewheeling, far-flung installation art project, combines chance and intuition and a humane eye.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 26, 2017

There's never been a film quite like this one.

| Oct 19, 2017

This delightful, digressive, breezy collaboration, staged to look more spontaneous than it possibly could be, celebrates and enhances both artists, repeatedly finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.

| Oct 19, 2017

"Faces Places" is a film of sheer joy, its exuberance surpassed only by its tenderness and purity of purpose.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 19, 2017

I don't need a thesaurus to describe my reaction to Faces Places. I can sum it up in two words: pure pleasure.

| Oct 16, 2017

... a testament to Varda's own talent and a truly special piece of filmmaking.

| Oct 13, 2017

"Faces Places" turns out to be a road movie in more than a merely literal sense. It is at once a roving journey into environments we rarely see in cinema and an incomplete but invaluable map of Varda's memories.

| Oct 12, 2017