The Cinematic Odd Couple Behind Faces Places NPRFaces Places co directors JR and Agnes Varda along with composer Matthieu Chedid, right at this years Cannes film festival. VenturelliWire. Image. VenturelliWire. Image. Faces Places co directors JR and Agnes Varda along with composer Matthieu Chedid, right at this years Cannes film festival. VenturelliWire. Image. Agnes Varda is credited with making the very first French New Wave film in 1. Later this year, shell receive an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. And shes still making movies her latest is called Faces Places, opening this week in U. S. theaters and its a collaboration with a street artist who goes by the initials JR. Hes the guy who created the giant toddler looking over the border wall between the U. S. and Mexico. Theyre an odd cinematic couple shes 8. Hes 3. 4. Shes a giant of film who stood alongside Godard and Truffaut in the 1. Hes an up and coming visual artist who pastes giant figures on the sides of buildings. Im always excited to paste and go in the action, and she made me realize that in cinema, in the writing of cinema, the reflection is the key of everything. Crack By Lucid. JRAre we so different JR asks. I mean, at the beginning it was a little bit harder for me because she would just direct everything and I couldnt place one word, and at some point I had to be like, OK, if were really co directing, I have to fight, he laughs. We made a good team, you know, Varda says. We loved working together. We enjoyed it very much. But JR admits that they work very differently. Im from generation where everything goes super fast, where you film, write, text at the same time. And shes from a generation where you stop, think, think again and then do. Agnes Release Me Official Music Video Subscribe to Cloud 9 Dance http For more info check httpwww. Im always excited to paste and go in the action, and she made me realize that in cinema, in the writing of cinema, the reflection is the key of everything. Two years ago, JR and Varda set out to make some kind of project together they didnt know what. Varda says they decided to visit villages in rural France and see what might happen. We thought that we could meet people and listen to them and listen enough that we would put them in the light, in a way. Theyd film their conversations, and JR created huge photographs that he and his team pasted onto the sides of buildings, barns, factory walls, giving their subjects larger than life identities. We chose normal people that we met, I would say, people with no power, Varda says. That was the point. The thing was, can we be person to person, and can we put the meeting as the main actionMeeting, listening, enjoying to meet. They met striking dockworkers, farmers, a bell ringer. But as they travelled in his van with the image of a camera pasted on each side JR says the film also became about them. Agnes Dance Love Pop' title='Agnes Dance Love Pop' />The mystery of our relation and where its going. Literally, when youre watching the film, we also dont know where its going, he says, and that allowed amazing surprise that we couldnt even have written. And the incredible thing for me is that we really didnt knew each other before we started the film. So its not like, I met her a couple of times and then two years later we say, OK, we should do something. Its literally, we met on a Monday. On a Tuesday, we meet again briefly. And on a Wednesday, we start shooting. JR and Varda each came up with ideas. JR convinced Varda to think of striking dock workers in the port of Le Havre as a community, a village. Escuchar musica de Michael Jackson en SonicoMusica. Net la mejor musica online gratis de Pop. She led him to a mailman, to some goat farmers. Then JR got Varda to agree to address her failing vision. The friendly curiosity that JR put on me about the way I age, it became for him a sort of side subject, she says. She didnt want me to film any of that, that shes seeing less and less, JR says, But the moment I actually got her to accept is when I say, Okay, let me try and realize what youre actually seeing. We calculated that we are 5. And it doesnt show in the film. In the work it doesnt show. Agnes Varda. JR recreated an ophthalmologists vision chart on the steps of the French National Library, with 5. Vardas macular degeneration. So the thing about. Varda says. The base of filmmaker, photographer work. And the fact that my view, my look, my eye. So I agree that JR questioned that. And she questioned him. Harris Jaysraj Collection Zipped Download'>Harris Jaysraj Collection Zipped Download. This is the first time in a career that spans more than 6. Varda has ever co directed a film. And she says she found the perfect accomplice. We calculated that we are 5. And it doesnt show in the film. In the work it doesnt show. It shows on our faces. But the way we got along, the way we decided together the project kept us very near to each other. So far, Varda and JR have no plans to collaborate again but she also has no plans to stop working. Howie Movshovitz teaches film and television at the University of Colorado Denver, reviews films for KUNC and directs the Denver Silent Film Festival. Tom Cole edited this story for radio, and Petra Mayer adapted it for the web.