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Mur Murs

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Filmmaker Agnes Varda captures a multitude of murals which decorate the city walls of Los Angeles.

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Adam Nayman The Ringer Apr 15, 2019
Varda travelled to Compton and trained her camera's curious, attentive, appreciative lens on a series of murals whose defiance, beauty, and simple existence demolished dominant narratives about Los Angeles' black and Chicano populations. Go to Full Review
Saffron Maeve Screen Slate Aug 25, 2026
The feedback loop of art, connectivity, and spatiality in Mur Murs and Documenteur represent a particular sort of generative curiosity which populated Varda’s catalog: one’s attention to visual art emboldens their attention to cinema. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey 48 Hills Mar 22, 2024
Freewheeling cultural cross-section... Go to Full Review
Marshall Shaffer Vague Visages Dec 6, 2023
Even though these representations are but impermanent adornments of the Los Angeles landscape, as Varda notes in the film’s final mural shot, their contributions to an intangible spirit of the city still matter. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jun 28, 2022
A-
An amazing film. Go to Full Review
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Jorge S @RT34154138 Jun 5, 2026 A geminiana Agnès Varda faria 98 anos em 30 de maio de 2026. Cineasta, fotógrafa e roteirista franco-belga, Varda é considerada uma das vozes mais importantes da história do cinema e deixou um legado revolucionário ao unir sensibilidade, experimentação estética e olhar político em obras que atravessaram décadas. Neste documentário que desfila grafites por uma Los Angeles distante dos cartões postais, obras e artistas contam suas histórias que vão da resistência política ao capitalismo que, como disse Caetano Veloso, "ergue e destrói coisas belas". É nesse contexto que os grafites tomam vida -- como por exemplo o painel que apresenta artistas plásticos que, no filme, avançam da pintura em direção às lentes atentas de Varda. Nota 8. Varda shows the graffiti in a Los Angeles far removed from postcards, the works and artists tell their stories. It is in this context that the graffiti comes to life—for example, the panel that presents visual artists who, in the film, move from painting. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Filmmaker Agnes Varda captures a multitude of murals which decorate the city walls of Los Angeles.
Director
Agnès Varda
Screenwriter
Agnès Varda
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Canadian French
Runtime
1h 21m
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