FacesPlaces

Mermaid Arts Centre will screen the movie Faces Place on Monday, October 22. Tickets cost €8 or €6.50 and are available at mermaidartscentre.ie.

Iconic French Nouvelle Vague director Agnes Varda teams up with artist JR for a road-trip across France, in this moving and playful documentary.

Travelling from town to town in JR’s van, repuposed as a gigantic camera, they set about photographing people at home or work, and pasting these im- ages in public spaces.

Deceptively simple in structure, the film expertly weaves the personal and political to create a moving work of humanist cinema, exemplified by Varda, a democratic, curious and generous spirt, who rolls her eyes at her young collaborator’s youthful exuberance. An irresistibly incongruent duo, JR and Varda, have created a moving meditation on friendship, cinema and the power of art on people’s lives.