The Gleaners and I ( Les glaneurs et la glaneuse ) ( The Gleaners & I )

The Gleaners and I (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
Alternate Title: The Gleaners & I
Screened, competed or awarded at:
European Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
78 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Documentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Agnès Varda

Written By:
Agnès Varda

Actors:
Bodan Litnanski ..... Himself
Agnès Varda ..... Herself
François Wertheimer ..... Himself

Synopsis:

An intimate, picturesque inquiry into French life, as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnes 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 immortalised by the likes of Millet and Van Gogh.Varda isn't particularly interested in immortalising today's gleaners but in investigating the reasons that the anonymous (desperate and quixotic both) and the celebrated (including a famous chef) choose to sift through our detritus. Along her journey, Varda constructs a portrait of France that is every bit as modern as the digital camera with which she does her filming, and in the process comes up with her finest, most effective work.

In 2000 Agnes Varda travelled the French countryside and the markets of Paris to study the lives of a collection of foragers and scavengers called The Gleaners. This remarkable collection of people insist of making use of materials that the public have so easily discarded. Varda admits to being a gleaner of sorts herself, which gives this honest and intriguing documentary a very special connection

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 04 January, 2013.

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