The Gleaners & I

Name: The Gleaners & I
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 7, 2001
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 86
Cast: Agnès Varda, François Wertheimer

2001

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: March 7, 2001

Starring: Agnès Varda, François Wertheimer

Summary: An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life, as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnès Varda. The aesthetic, political and finally moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip, and inAn intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life, as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnès Varda. The aesthetic, political and finally moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip, and in previous generations were immortalized by the likes of Millet and Van Gogh. (Zeitgeist Films)… Expand

Director: Agnès Varda

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 82 min

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David Sterritt

A fascinating nonfiction voyage into rural and urban France, focusing on idiosyncratic individuals who live off things the rest of us throw away, from food to furniture. Read full review

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Michael Wilmington

Of all the movies I've seen in the past several years, this is one of the ones I love the most. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Feels delightfully organic, eccentrically rambling, the found artistic collage of a woman who herself loves to collect. Read full review

Sean Axmaker

Varda sees herself as a gleaner as she searches for the people and cultural activities missed by the rest of the media. Read full review

Peter Rainer

There's a timelessness, an immanence to what she (Varda) shows us. Read full review

Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

A delicacy for mature filmgoers who are able to derive as much pleasure from a perfectly, sympathetically crafted essay as from a well-spun yarn.

Jami Bernard

Varda injects her sprightly personality into the film, a seasoning that sometimes overwhelms the stew. Read full review

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