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The Gleaners & I (2000)

21 Feb

82m; France

Director: Agnès Varda

Cast:  François WertheimerAgnès Varda and Bodan Litnanski

Synopsis (IMDB): An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s own director, Agnes Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Working Class

 

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