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The Gleaners & I

Original title: Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
  • 20002000
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  • 1h 22m
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6.9K
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Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000)
Documentary

Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.

IMDb RATING
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6.9K
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  • Director
    • Agnès Varda
  • Writer
    • Agnès Varda
  • Stars
    • François Wertheimer
    • Agnès Varda
    • Jean La Planche
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  • Director
    • Agnès Varda
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    • Agnès Varda
  • Stars
    • François Wertheimer
    • Agnès Varda
    • Jean La Planche
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    • 36User reviews
    • 59Critic reviews
    • 83Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 16 wins & 4 nominations

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    Bodan Litnanski
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    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. —Anonymous
    franceharvestfood industrygarbagefrench countryside91 more
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    • Trivia
      Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Say It Isn't So/Wit/The Brothers/The Tailor of Panama/The Gleaners and I (2001)
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    8/10
    The gatherers
    Jean Francois Millet, the French painter of the Barbizon school, seems to have been the inspiration for Agnes Varda's interesting documentary "Les glaneurs et la glaneuse". In fact, Ms. Varda makes it a point to take us along to the French countryside where Millet got the inspiration for his masterpiece "Les Glaneurs". Like in his other paintings, Millet comments about the peasantry working the fields in most of his canvases. One can see the poverty in his subjects as they struggle to gather crops for their employers.

    Ms. Varda takes a humanistic approach to another type of activity in which she bases her story. In fact, the people one sees in the film are perhaps the descendants of the gleaners of Millet's time, except they are bringing whatever is left behind once the machinery takes care of gathering the best of each crop, leaving the rest to rot in the fields.

    Agnes Varda takes a trip through her native France to show us the inequality of a system that produces such excesses that a part of it has to be dumped because it doesn't meet standards. On the one hand, there is such abundance, and on the other, one sees how some of the poor people showcased in the documentary can't afford to buy the basics and must resort to take it on their own to get whatever has been left in order to survive.

    With this documentary, Agnes Varda shows an uncanny understanding to the problems most of these people are facing.
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    • Release date
      • July 7, 2000 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Los hurgadores y yo
    • Filming locations
      • France
    • Production company
      • Ciné-tamaris
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $155,320
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $12,655
      • Mar 11, 2001
    • Gross worldwide
      • $159,165
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 22 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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