It not only informs and educates, it enlightens, and does all this with supreme enchantment and poetry.
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06/11/01
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The Gleaners and I (2001)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:32
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.6/10
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... [More]
Director: Agnes Varda
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Reviews for The Gleaners and I
[I]t not only informs and educates, it enlightens, and does all this with a supreme enchantment and poetry.
06/11/01
You couldn’t ask more loving and sensitive illumination of an activity more often considered demeaning.
05/15/01
The Gleaners and I shows Varda in full flower, ever reaping what she has sown.
03/10/03
A funny sequence gets as many interpretations of the law that governs the gleaning around oyster beds as people providing them.
05/23/01
An elliptically subtle and beautifully evocative portrait of how one man's trash becomes another man's treasure.
03/07/01
And in what appears to be a documentary [Varda] conceals a tender meditation about her own life, and life itself.
05/11/01
Top CriticGathering these various gleaners into the pastiche that is her film, Varda preserves them, gives them new form, and therefore new life.
04/04/01
Visually brilliant inside look at the world of food production.
12/13/04
Varda's subject matter is surprisingly rich, but it's her own energetic, curious nature that gives the film its snap.
06/11/01
Top CriticAgnes Varda finds that one man's trash is literally another man's treasure in her highly personal The Gleaners and I.
02/26/02
For the most part, Varda's home movie is a simple and sweet thing.
06/27/01
Top CriticHowever 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.
10/14/02
The Gleaners and I is an exceptional, accomplished documentary that serves as a striking example of 'found cinema.'
08/02/01
[A] lyrically ramshackle essay about people, including Varda herself, who don't fit into society's cubbyholes.
09/26/02
Top CriticVarda draws a neat parallel between the collective urge and her own career in filmmaking.
05/31/02
[The] characters are defined by dawdle and drift as much as Varda is in The Gleaners and I, catching life on the fly -- and implicitly inviting us to do the same.
05/12/01
Top Critic[Varda] seems less the confident, brilliant filmmaker history would make her out to be and more of a doddering old biddy with too much time on her hands.
03/23/01
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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