Vagabond (1985) Sans toit ni loi (original title)

Director:

Agnès Varda

Writer:

Agnès Varda

Release Date:

16 May 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She's unkempt, a vagabond...

Plot Keywords:

Ditch | Flashback | Tree | Alone | Vagabond

Awards:

10 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Sandrine Bonnaire	...	Mona Bergeron, sans toit ni loi
Setti Ramdane	...	le marocaine qui la trouve
Francis Balchère	...	un gendarme
Jean-Louis Perletti	...	un autre
Urbain Causse	...	un paysan interrogé
Christophe Alcazar	...	un autre, brûleyrr de fossé
Dominique Durand	...	le premier motard
Joël Fosse	...	l'autre, Paulo, amant de Yolande
Patrick Schmit	...	le camionneur
Daniel Bos	...	Le démolisseur
Katy Champaud	...	le jeune fille à la pompe
Raymond Roulle	...	le vieux aux allumettes
Henri Fridlani	...	le fossoyeur
Patrick Sokol	...	le jaune homme au sandwich
Pierre Imbert	...	le garagiste
Richard Imbert	...	Son fils
Marthe Jarnias	...	la vielle Tante Lydie
Yolande Moreau	...	Yolande, sa bonne
Gabriel Mariani	...	Son oncle AIMÉ B.I.O.N.N.E.T.
Patrick Lepcynski	...	David, le juifferrant
Sylvaine Berger	...	les Bergers
Michèle Doumeche	...	La p... sur la route
Sabine	...	le Bergers
Macha Méril	...	la platonologne Mme Landier
Pierette Soler	...	La dame qui parle à son mari
Pierre Emonnot	...	le régisseur pas content
Stéphane Freiss	...	Jean-Pierre, ingéneuragronome
Laurence Cortadellas	...	sa femme Eliane
Emmanuel Protopopoff	...	le routard donneur-de-sang
Vincent Sanchez	...	l'infirmier
Michel Constantial	...	Le réigisseur des caisses
'Garibaldi' Fernández	...	Le maçon au bonnet rond
Alain Roussel	...	l'homme-des-bois, violent
Yahiaoui Assouna	...	Yahiaoui 'Assoun' Assouna, tailleur devinges
Aimée Chisci	...	La régisseur du mas
Marguerite Chisci	...	Sa femme a la télé et à la lessive
Geneviève Bonfils	...	la voyageuse méfiante
Christian Chessa	...	Le Zonard-Mac, a la gare
Setina Arhab	...	la zonarde
Jacques Berthier	...	Le petit monsieur bien-mis
Oliver Jongerlynck	...	le racketeur au photomaton
Rémi Leboucq	...	Le client racketé
Jean Dambrin	...	le trichlomane
Bébert Samcir	...	lr joueur d'harmonica

Directed by
Agnès Varda

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Agnès Varda

Produced by
Oury Milshtein	....	producer

Original Music by
Joanna Bruzdowicz

Cinematography by
Patrick Blossier

Film Editing by
Patricia Mazuy
Agnès Varda

Production Management
Oury Milshtein	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jacques Royer	....	first assistant director

Sound Department
Jonathan Liebling	....	foley artist
Jean-Paul Mugel	....	sound

Production Companies

• Ciné Tamaris
• Films A2
• Ministère de la Culture

Distributors

• MK2 Diffusion (1985) (France) (theatrical)
• Grange (1986) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Artificial Eye (2010) (UK) (DVD) (box-set)
• Criterion Collection, The (2000) (USA) (DVD)
• Criterion Collection, The (2004) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

"Sans toit ni loi" - France (original title)
"Without Roof or Law" - International (English title) (literal title)

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

France

Language:

Arabic | French | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:12 | Iceland:L | Australia:M | Portugal:M/16 (Qualidade) | USA:Not Rated

Company:

Ciné Tamaris

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the opening segment, Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire) is lying in a ditch in the vineyard. The character Mona is supposed to be dead, but if you look at the actress's neck you can clearly see a neck artery visibly pulsing.

Quotes:

la platonologne Mme Landier:Why did you drop out?
Mona Bergeron, sans toit ni loi:Champagne on the road's better!

Movie Connections:

References Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)

Soundtrack:

Freedom Is Slavery

Still the Vagabond!

I can't believe that I saw this film ten years ago in Dr. Flitterman-Lewis' class on Women and Film at Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was probably one of the most memorable films from that class. I thought Sandrine Bonnaire did an absolute brilliant job as playing Mona. I felt so sorry for her. She was never really home anywhere and nothing ever worked out for her. Maybe she just didn't fit in anywhere and longed for something better but she was getting worse. She lived anywhere in the fields, etc. She needed the kindness of strangers who never forgot her as they told her friends. She needed a bath to be washed away from the dirt of her existence. She never belonged anywhere. We didn't know her parents or where she came from. She just came and left without answering questions.