Cast : Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss, Yolande Moreau
1985 / drama / France / original title : Sans toit ni loi / 105’ / Color / status : completed / French / long feature-film
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1985 Venice Golden Lion-winning VAGABOND by Agnès Varda. Seamlessly blending fiction with documentary form, the film challenges conventional narrative structures and subverts audience expectations. Its raw and uncompromising portrayal of marginality and freedom stands as a landmark in French feminist cinema, anchored by Sandrine Bonnaire’s groundbreaking performance.
The camera follows Mona, recounting the final two months of her wandering. She drifts. Pitches her tent near a garage or a cemetery. She walks—most of all, until she can walk no further.
FRANCE / 1985 / 105′ / 2K
VENICE 1985 – GOLDEN LION, FIPRESCI Pri ze, OCIC Award
CÉSAR AWARDS 1986 – Best Actress (Sandrine Bonnaire)
Press
«Cool, enigmatic and as gripping as any thriller. Unmissable.»
The Guardian
«Agnès Varda’s best film.»
Little White Lies
«What a film.»
Chicago Sun-Times
