Story Line
Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.
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Agnès Varda
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Bodan Litnanski
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François Wertheimer
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Rating
7.6/ 10
Release Date
2000-07-07
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Documentary
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User Reviews (2)
badelf
9/10
•6/10/2022One doesn't normally use the word "fun" and documentary in the same sentence, but Varga has such a unique personality and style that her films are actually fun. The Gleaners and I may be the most fun and yet, Varga delivers the political message with...
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6/10
•8/27/2022The Gleaners and I is a documentary about gleaning as both a physical and metaphysical activity. Director Agnès Varda is herself a meta-gleaner; she’s a gleaner of gleaners the same way that Jesus was a fisher of men.
The film is a confluence of t...