- Title: The Gleaners and I
- Original Title: Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse
- Release Date: 07/07/2000
- Duration:82 Min / 01:22
- Country:FR
- Genre:Documentary
About Film
Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.
Movie Rating: 7.65
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badelf
9/10
One doesn't normally use the word "fun" and documentary in the same sentence, but Varga has such a unique personality and style that her films are actually fun. The Gleaners and I may be the most fun and yet, Varga delivers the political message with Vaseline. At the same time, we get an education on found art.
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6/10
The Gleaners and I is a documentary about gleaning as both a physical and metaphysical activity. Director Agnès Varda is herself a meta-gleaner; she’s a gleaner of gleaners the same way that Jesus was a fisher of men.
The film is a confluence of the practical and the artistic. Many of the people in the movie glean to eat (their children sing...
