2000 / documentary / France / original title : Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse / 82’ / Color / status : completed / French / long feature-film / International collections
Agnès Varda focuses her eye on gleaners, these people who pick up left-over discarded items. Her thoughts on her life as a filmmaker (a gleaner of sorts) gives her a connection to her subjects that creates a touching human portrait.
CANNES 2000 – OUT OF COMPETITION
Press
“Wonderful! One of the bravest, most idiosyncratic of French filmmakers.”
The New York Times
“In true punk spirit, “The Gleaners and I” doubles as a programmatic aesthetic statement and a protest against the way things are.”
The New York Times
“Difficult to characterize and impossible to forget... [a film of] incalculable value”
The New York Times
