Agnes Varda's pictorial essay on outdoor L.A. murals of all types, from the political and community-educational to the strictly commercial, plus a running commentary by her, plus interviews with the artists. Varda gets a very good image: bright and clear. Her Leftist sympathies, though, oblige her to take a rather benevolent, undiscriminating, and romanticized view of these artists as anti-elitist, anti-Establishment figures, and aesthetic issues hardly enter into it. Luckily, the artists sometimes inadvertently undercut themselves with their own pronouncements, and as for their art work -- well, you can see for yourself. (1981) — Duncan Shepherd
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