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The Gleaners and I (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 34

Fresh: 31

Rotten:3

Average Rating: 7.6/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 82 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Mar 7, 2001 Limited

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Director: Agnes Varda

Director: Agnes Varda
Screenwriter: Agnes Varda
Composer: Joanna Bruzdowicz
Studio: Zeitgeist Films

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Jul 23, 2002

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06/24/06
Time Out

strings together observations about psychotherapy, freeway traffic and the origins of cinema while opening our eyes to a subculture few of us ever think about.

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09/28/05
James Sanford
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08/26/05
Emanuel Levy
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visually brilliant inside look at the world of food production

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12/13/04
Michael E. Grost
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12/05/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

A pleasure to watch — part documentary, part personal essay, part unguided tour. It's a chance to understand ourselves differently by seeing the things we choose not to use.

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03/11/03
Joshua Tanzer
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The Gleaners and I shows Varda in full flower, ever reaping what she has sown.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

However rudimentary her thesis on the subject is, Varda is able to explore her interest, pass it on to the viewer and still give them something to learn about.

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10/14/02
Greg Muskewitz
eFilmCritic.com

[A] lyrically ramshackle essay about people, including Varda herself, who don't fit into society's cubbyholes.

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09/26/02
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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A bewitching documentary that mischievously fuses the past with the present, the rich with the poor, the idle with workaholic

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07/18/02
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Urban Cinefile

Varda draws a neat parallel between the collective urge and her own career in filmmaking.

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05/31/02
Nathaniel Rogers
Film Experience

Agnes Varda finds that one man's trash is literally another man's treasure in her highly personal The Gleaners and I.

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02/26/02
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

The Gleaners and I is a film well worth finding.

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02/21/02
Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News
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Charged with the pleasure of discovery.

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12/17/01
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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The Gleaners and I is an exceptional, accomplished documentary that serves as a striking example of 'found cinema.'

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08/02/01
Adam Nayman
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For the most part, Varda's home movie is a simple and sweet thing.

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06/27/01
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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Varda's subject matter is surprisingly rich, but it's her own energetic, curious nature that gives the film its snap.

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06/11/01
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
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It not only informs and educates, it enlightens, and does all this with supreme enchantment and poetry.

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06/11/01
Jeffrey M. Anderson
San Francisco Examiner
 
 
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