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Faces Places
Why this pick
Varda again turns encounters with ordinary people into a playful, tender essay film, mixing handmade visual invention with an alert curiosity about work, memory, and overlooked lives.
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MOVIE2000 1h 22m FRA
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Its intimate collage of autobiography, photographs, installations, and street-level observation shares the warm, inquisitive self-portraiture and tactile visual imagination of The Gleaners & I.
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Cameraperson
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A cinematographer assembles fragments from her work and life into a searching personal documentary, echoing Varda’s way of making the filmmaker’s presence part of an ethical act of looking.
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The House Is Black
Why this pick
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Stories We Tell
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Agnès Varda
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