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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
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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>
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- TriviaThe episodes in which the main character is involved are each marked off by a tracking shot, thirteen of them.
- GoofsIn 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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: The Best Films of 1986 (1987)
- SoundtracksVariations sur la Vita
Composed and directed by Joanna Bruzdowicz
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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.
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
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