Overview

A leading figure of the French New Waves (specifically its Left Bank subset), Agnès Varda is still making celebrated films (Faces Places received an Oscar nomination for Best Feature Documentary) at 89 years of age. In her latest experimental-yet-warm film, she and professional photographer and muralist JR hit the countryside, an often-tackled subject for Varda. Together, they travel around France in a special box truck equipped as a portable photo booth and printing facility as they take photographs of people around the country. With that inspiration, they also create special colossal mural pictures of individuals, communities and places they want to honor and celebrate. Along the way, the old cinematic veteran and the young artistic idealist enjoy an odd friendship as they chat and explore their views on the world as only they can.