Faces Places is a subtly self-reflexive documentary that swims against this tide, inviting audiences to see that filmmaking is a process of having conversations with people, and enveloping each individual and their private creativity within the wider collaborative process. Art is a form of social work or, rather, it can be with the right people at the helm.

If there’s a message in Visages, Villages (both to us, and from Varda to her young friend) is that one does not need to be a tortured and nasty person to make great art. She is living and still-working proof.

Jordan Hoffman

The Guardian

The two creators hit it off famously and collaborate with great ease on a journey driven by mutual curiosity and creative application.

Todd McCarthy

The Hollywood Reporter