The Gleaners and I
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Agnès Varda’s extraordinary late-career renaissance began with this wonderfully idiosyncratic, self-reflexive documentary in which the French cinema icon explores the world of modern-day gleaners: those living on the margins who survive by foraging for what society throws away. Embracing the intimacy and freedom of digital filmmaking, Varda posits herself as a kind of gleaner of images and ideas, one whose generous, expansive vision makes room for ruminations on everything from aging to the birth of cinema to the beauty of heart-shaped potatoes. By turns playful, philosophical, and subtly political, The Gleaners and I is a warmly human reflection on the contradictions of our consumerist world from an artist who, like her subjects, finds unexpected richness where few think to look.
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Credits
- Director
- Agnès Varda
- Written by
- Agnès Varda
- Cinematography by
- Stéphane Krausz
- Cinematography by
- Didier Rouget
- Cinematography by
- Didier Doussin
- Cinematography by
- Pascal Sautelet
- Cinematography by
- Agnès Varda
- Edited by
- Agnès Varda
- Edited by
- Laurent Pineau
- Music by
- Joanna Bruzdowicz
- Music by
- Pierre Barbaud
- Music by
- Isabelle Olivier (Océan)
- Music by
- François Wertheimer
- Rap by
- Bredel and Klugman
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