#B32: VARDA, Agnès: The Gleaners and I (2000)

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VARDA, Agnès (France)
The Gleaners and I [2000]
Spine #B32
Blu-ray


Agnés Varda’s extraordinary late-career renaissance began with this wonderfully idiosyncratic, self-reflexive documentary in which the French cinema icon explores the world of modern-day gleaners: those living on the margins who survive by foraging for what society throws away. Embracing the intimacy and freedom of digital filmmaking, Varda posits herself as a king of gleaner of images and ideas, one whose generous, expansive vision makes room for ruminations on everything from aging to the birth of cinema to the beauty of heart-shaped potatoes. By turns playful, philosophical, and subtly political, The Gleaners and I is a warmly human reflection on the contradictions of our consumerist world from an artist who, like her subjects, finds unexpected richness where few think to look.

82 minutes
Color
Stereo
in French
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2020



Director/Writer


Agnès Varda was 72 when she directed The Gleaners and I.

Other Varda films in the Collection:

#B2: Les 3 Boutons (2015)
#B4: Ô Saisons, Ô Châteaux (1958)
#B3/#419: La Pointe Courte (1955)
#B7: Les Fiancés du Pont Macdonald (1962)
#B5: Du Côté de la Côte (1958)
#B6/#73: Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
#B35: Salut les Cubains (1964)
#B12: Le Lion Volatil (2003)
#B13/#420: Le Bonheur (1965)
#B14: Les Créatures (1966)
#B15: Elsa la Rose (1966)
#B17/Eclipse Series 43: Black Panthers (1970)
#B16/Eclipse Series 43: Uncle Yanco (1968)
#B10: T'As de Beaux Escaliers, tu sais (1986)
#B21/#978: One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)
#B20/Eclipse Series 43: Documenteur (1981)
#B22: Réponse de Femmes (1975)
#B19/Eclipse Series 43: Mur Murs (1981)
#B18/Eclipse Series 43: Lions Love (... and Lies) (1969)
#B36: Ulysse (1982)
#B8: L'Opéra-Mouffe (1958)
#B23: Plaisir d'Amour en Iran (1977)
#B24/#74/#418: Vagabond (1985)
#B9: Les Dites Cariatides (1984)
#B25: 7 P., Cuis., S. de B. . . . (à Saisir) (1985)
#B26: Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988)
#B27: Kung-Fu Master! (1988)
#B28: Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
#B30: The World of Jacques Demy (1995)
#B29: The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
#B31: One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
#B33: The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002)
#B11: Daguerréotypes (1975)
#B37: Ydessa, Les Ours Et Etc. . . . (2004)
#B39: The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
#B38: Agnès de Ci de là Varda (2011)
#B34: Faces Places (2017)
#B1: Varda by Agnès (2019)

The Film


The Extras

The Booklet

Commentary

Video tribute

Documentary 1

Documentary 2

Documentary 3

Controversial altered ending

Theatrical trailer

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