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Vagabond

Original title: Sans toit ni loi
  • 19851985
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
10K
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Sandrine Bonnaire in Sans toit ni loi (1985)
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A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.

IMDb RATING
7.7/10
10K
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  • Director
    • Agnès Varda
  • Writer
    • Agnès Varda
  • Stars
    • Sandrine Bonnaire
    • Macha Méril
    • Stéphane Freiss
Top credits
  • Director
    • Agnès Varda
  • Writer
    • Agnès Varda
  • Stars
    • Sandrine Bonnaire
    • Macha Méril
    • Stéphane Freiss
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    • 48User reviews
    • 61Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 8 wins & 5 nominations

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    Sandrine Bonnaire in Sans toit ni loi (1985)
    Sandrine Bonnaire in Sans toit ni loi (1985)
    Sandrine Bonnaire in Sans toit ni loi (1985)
    Sandrine Bonnaire, Laurence Cortadellas, Joël Fosse, Stéphane Freiss, Marthe Jarnias, Patrick Lepcynski, Yolande Moreau, and Macha Méril in Sans toit ni loi (1985)
    Setina Arhab, Yahiaoui Assouna, Sabine, Sylvain, Jacques Berthier, Geneviève Bonfils, Sandrine Bonnaire, Christian Chessa, Aimée Chisci, Marguerite Chisci, Michel Constantial, Laurence Cortadellas, Jean Dambrin, Stéphane Freiss, Marthe Jarnias, Oliver Jongerlynck, Patrick Lepcynski, Gabriel Mariani, Yolande Moreau, Macha Méril, Emmanuel Protopopoff, Alain Roussel, Bébert Samcir, Vincent Sanchez, Agnès Varda, Michèle Doumèche, 'Garibaldi' Fernández, and Rémi Leboucq in Sans toit ni loi (1985)
    Sandrine Bonnaire in Sans toit ni loi (1985)
    Sandrine Bonnaire in Sans toit ni loi (1985)
    Sans toit ni loi (1985)
    Sandrine Bonnaire in Sans toit ni loi (1985)
    Sandrine Bonnaire in Sans toit ni loi (1985)
    Sans toit ni loi (1985)
    Sandrine Bonnaire in Sans toit ni loi (1985)

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    Sandrine Bonnaire
    Sandrine Bonnaire
    • Mona Bergeronas Mona Bergeron
    Macha Méril
    Macha Méril
    • La platanologue Mme Landieras La platanologue Mme Landier
    Stéphane Freiss
    Stéphane Freiss
    • Jean-Pierre, ingéneur agronomeas Jean-Pierre, ingéneur agronome
    Setti Ramdane
    • Le marocain qui la trouveas Le marocain qui la trouve
    Francis Balchère
    • Un gendarmeas Un gendarme
    Jean-Louis Perletti
    • Un autreas Un autre
    Urbain Causse
    • Un paysan interrogéas Un paysan interrogé
    Christophe Alcazar
    • Un autre, brûleur de fosséas Un autre, brûleur de fossé
    Dominique Durand
    • Le premier motardas Le premier motard
    Joël Fosse
    • L'autre, Paulo, amant de Yolandeas L'autre, Paulo, amant de Yolande
    Patrick Schmit
    • Le camionneuras Le camionneur
    Daniel Bos
    • Le démolisseuras Le démolisseur
    Katy Champaud
    • La jeune fille à la pompeas La jeune fille à la pompe
    Raymond Roulle
    • Le vieux aux allumettesas Le vieux aux allumettes
    Henri Fridlani
    • Le fossoyeuras Le fossoyeur
    Patrick Sokol
    • Le jeune homme au sandwichas Le jeune homme au sandwich
    Pierre Imbert
    • Le garagisteas Le garagiste
    Richard Imbert
    • Son filsas Son fils
    • Director
      • Agnès Varda
    • Writer
      • Agnès Varda
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    Storyline

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    In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She's unkempt, a vagabond. Through flashbacks and brief interviews, we trace her final weeks as she camps alone or falls in with various men and women, many of whom project their needs onto her or try to give her life direction. She squats in an old house smoking hash with a man, falls for a Tunisian laborer and works beside him pruning grape vines, stays with a couple shepherding goats, meets an agronomist trying to save plane trees, gets tipsy with an old woman, and has an offer to appear in porn films. —<jhailey@hotmail.com>
    south of francecold weathersquatcasual sexvagabond306 more
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      • Drama
    • Certificate
      • Not Rated
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The episodes in which the main character is involved are each marked off by a tracking shot, thirteen of them.
    • Goofs
      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

      les Bergers: She blew in like the wind. No plans, no goals... No wishes, no wants... We suggested things to her. She didn't want to do a thing. Wandering? That's withering. By proving she's useless, she helps a system she rejects. It's not wandering, it's withering.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The Best Films of 1986 (1987)
    • Soundtracks
      Variations sur la Vita
      Composed and directed by Joanna Bruzdowicz

    User reviews48

    Review
    Top review
    10/10
    Mona's journey will touch you deeply
    Perhaps Sandrine Bonnaire's "Mona" represents my greatest fear -- of being alone and broke. That is why she has remained with me for almost twenty years. Remembering the first time I met her is nostalgic to me. I walked the roads of rural France with her and liked her for not begging to be liked. Perhaps it was love more than like. Her journey made me tearful. I mourned the inevitability of her existence.

    Such is Agnes Varda's talent that the movie affected me so deeply -- my favourite movie of hers, by the way. The landscapes are so vivid, the dead tree branches so bare yet so brittle in the harsh elements. The compositions possess a fixed, absolute nature that conveys a hopeless destiny. There is no offensive beauty in Mona's destitution, there is merely purity.

    Because so few motion pictures resonate with this much intensity and feeling for me, I go through periods in which I feel like I'm wasting my life away seeing so many, but when I consider the alternative, Mona's choices suddenly feel real to me.

    Extraordinary in every sense.

    Make a gallant effort to see VAGABOND. It will touch you deeply and wake you from the slumber of indifference.
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    • fertilecelluloid
    • Sep 15, 2005

    Details

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    • Release date
      • May 16, 1986 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official site
      • Ciné Tamaris (France)
    • Languages
      • French
      • Arabic
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Without Roof or Law
    • Filming locations
      • Nîmes, Gard, France
    • Production companies
      • Ciné-tamaris
      • Films A2
      • Ministère de la Culture
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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