The Gleaners and I (2000)
Synopsis of The Gleaners and I
Legendary filmmaker Agnes Varda takes digital camcorder in hand and roams about the French countryside in search of "gleaners." An age-old practice, as depicted in Millet's famous painting, performed traditionally by peasant women, gleaners scavenged the remains of a crop after the harvest. Varda finds their modern-day equivalent collecting rejected potatoes outside of Lyon, fallen apples in Provence, and refuse in the markets of Paris. Along the way, she talks to a man sporting yellow rubber boots who has lived on trash for ten years, a gourmet chef who gleans for his restaurant, a homeless doctorate in biology who teaches literacy courses to immigrants for free, a couple of artists who use trash in their work, and the grandson of early cinema innovator Étienne-Jules Marey. Along the way, Varda discusses heart-shaped potatoes, big trucks on the highway, the waste of consumerism, and the ravages of time. This film was screened at the 2000 Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 142 mins
- Director(s):
- Agnès Varda
- Producer(s):
- Agnès Varda
- Categories:
- Foreign, Documentary, Special Interest
- 2000 - European Film Academy - Prix Arte
- 2001 - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Documentary
- 2001 - National Society of Film Critics - Best Documentary
- 2001 - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Documentary
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