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Mood:
- ContemplativeThought ProvokingTouching
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Plot:
- AgingHuman NatureSocial DifferencesCooking and FoodLifestyleSocietyArtist's LifeImmigrants more...
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Genres:
- ForeignDocumentaryDrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- EuropeFrance
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Style:
- Talky
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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The Gleaners and I, 2000
French
France
Profile of The Gleaners and I
The mood of The Gleaners and I is thought provoking, contemplative, and touching. The plot centers around cooking and food, aging, and social differences. It is a foreign, documentary, and drama movie. Stylistically, The Gleaners and I is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. The Gleaners and I is set in France. It happens in the 1990s. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of The Gleaners and I
Veteran French filmmaker Agnes Varda ads a triumphant and ultra-contemporary chapter to her life's work of cinematic investigations into the lives of characters relegated to society's margins (usually women) with the graceful and compelling documentary, The Gleaners and I. Departing from Jean-Francois Millet's celebrated 1867 portrait of women picking through a harvested wheat field entitled "Les Glaneuses," Varda constructs a modest and compassionate visual essay on the concept and lifestyle of "gleaning" or scavenging, once ubiquitous in rural 19th Century France. With digital camera in hand, Varda vagabonds around France in search of the 21st Century's incarnation of the gleaners. From potato fields in central France, to abandoned vineyards in Burgundy, to supermarket dumpsters in Paris, Varda's film portrays a completely surprising and ultimately complex populace, who subsist off of the waste of others. The film's casual style allows the intelligence, dignity, and honesty of the subjects to shine through as Varda herself pieces together a modern aesthetic and ideology of gleaning. With affectionate humor and searching intelligence, Varda points the camera at herself, marveling at her own process of aging and the gleaning that lies at the center of her own art and life.
Details
| Language: | French |
| Country: | France |
| Release date: | October 2000 |
| Runtime: | 82 min |
Cast and Crew
as Himself
as Herself
as Himself
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Critics Reviews
The New York Times
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- by: Dana Stevens
Chicago Tribune
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- by: Michael Wilmington
