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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Faces Places is a 2017 documentary feature co-directed by Agnès Varda and JR—yes, that's his Stage Name, "JR".Varda, a famous director from the French New Wave, teamed up with JR, a "street artist" 65 years her junior. JR had prior to this film made his name in the art world for a series of projects in which he took photos, made enormous prints, and pasted them on the walls of public buildings. The idea of the film was for the two of them to travel around France, interview people, take their pictures, and post them up on walls in the manner of JR's previous art works. The resultant film saw them visiting various rural and out-of-the-way locales: a farm, two goat ranches, a mining town, an abandoned housing project, a secluded graveyard, a factory, a Normandy beach with a ruined German bunker (not a D-day beach), and the docks of Le Havre. Finally they make an attempt to visit Varda's old friend and colleague, Jean-Luc Godard.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })
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Abandoned Area: Several. Varda and JR film at an unfinished housing project, but the "abandoned area" trope is subverted when a bunch of villagers show up, apparently for some sort of picnic and party. Later they film around an abandoned German bunker on the Normandy coast, which stands on end on the sand in an odd manner; the mayor of the village explains that it was pushed off the cliff onto the beach when it became a hazard due to erosion.
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Art Imitates Art: JR sits against a beach shack in exactly the same pose that Guy Bourdin adopted when Varda photographed him sitting against that same shack some fifty-odd years before.
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Animated Credits Opening: And an Animated Credits Closing. The opening credits are rotoscoped animation of Varda and JR walking around as the credits roll. The closing credits are the same, with Varda and JR sitting on a bench by a lake, this time with Limited Animation as the only thing moving is the waves on the lake.
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