Not able to make it to the annual all-star Oscars nominees luncheon, French filmmaker Agnes Varda, 89, sent along a collection of cardboard cutouts in her place along with her collaborator JR. Meryl Street, was left in a fit of giggles by the cheeky poses of the absent Agnes. Agnes and artist JR, 34, are nominated for Best Documentary Feature for the crowd-funded Faces Places, which won the prestigious l’œil d’or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film chronicles a road trip in which the two traveled around France in JR’s van, meeting ordinary people and telling their stories of small town life.
Agnes’s cut outs with artist JR, were the talk of the day as the nominees gathered to congratulate each other during a glamorous lunch at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills.
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