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Agnès VardaScreenplay:
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Didier RougetComposer:
Joanna BruzdowiczCast:
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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. (Criterion)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
European Film Awards
- 2000 - Agnès Varda (Best Documentary Film)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 2001 - Agnès Varda (Best Documentary/Non Fiction Film)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2001 - Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary)