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The Gleaners and I (French: Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, lit. "The gleaners and the female gleaner") is a 2000 French documentary film by Agnès Varda that features various kinds of gleaning. It screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival ("Official Selection 2000"), and later went on to win awards around the world.
A film by the French cinema icon Agnès Varda, who explores the world of modern-day gleaners and their richness of images and ideas. The Gleaners and I is a playful, philosophical, and subtly political reflection on the contradictions of our consumerist world.
May 11, 2001 · Roger Ebert praises Agnes Varda's film as a personal and meditative essay on gleaning, life and cinema. He describes how Varda uses a digital camera to capture the ancient tradition of finding treasure in the refuse, and how she reveals her own story as a gleaner and a filmmaker.
This is the first four minutes of Agnes Varda's full-length documentary, "The Gleaners and I" (2000). Inspired by Realist painter Jean-François Millet's famo...
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Jul 7, 2000 · A film about gleaners, those who pick leftover food or trash, and their lives and ethics. Director Agnès Varda explores the themes of survival, art, and consumerism through interviews and images.
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A film about people who scavenge for food and other resources in the French countryside, inspired by a painting by Jean-Francois Millet. Director Agnès Varda explores the motives, methods and challenges of the "gleaners" with humor and compassion.
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Filmmaker Agnes Varda strikes out with a handheld camera in search of the modern equivalent of painter Jean-Francois Millet's grain field gleaners. Watch trailers & learn more.
