Alas, much of her filmography is hard to find with the demise of Filmstruck, but Varda’s 2017 collaboration with French muralist JR, “Faces Places,” is a joyous thing and available on Netflix. The unexpected creative chemistry between the octogenarian new wave filmmaker and the thirtysomething artist is wonderful to watch as they roam the French countryside meeting all sorts of colorful characters and making art installations with them.
Kanopy has a few or her movies. It's a platform that partners with public libraries to make content available to their members. For those in San Francisco, for instance, you can get an account as long as you have an SF public library card. It's free and you can watch a certain number of movies per month (I think it's 8 or something like that).
Virtually all of Varda's output is swiftly available through the torrent community. I know that today it is popular to say "Why use pirate sites when you can stream?", but French art cinema is an example where torrenting will give you access to much more than authorized channels.
Faces Places is truly an amazing documentary. There's something so effortlessly beautiful and humanistic in it that I love. Agnes manages to grapple with her mortality and entire life in a calm yet emotional manner that's just magnificent.
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