With François Wertheimer, Agnès Varda, Jean La Planche, Bodan Litnanski. The Gleaners and I, it is called, and the title emphasizes the autobiographical element in this small, compassionate film. Directed by Agnès Varda. French Avant-garde filmmaker and documentarian, Agnes Varda trains her ever-seeking eye on "gleaners", those who pick at already harvested fields for the odd potato or turnip, who insist on finding a … Directed by Agnès Varda. Varda’s rumination on this art of “living off the leftovers of others” finds inspiration in both past and present, rural and urban, the political and the highly personal. In 2000, Agnès Varda travelled the French countryside to study the world of foragers and scavengers called The Gleaners. Get unlimited DVD Movies & TV Shows delivered to your door with no … Directed by Agnès Varda • 2000 • France Starring Agnès Varda 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. The Gleaners And I doesn’t make such heavy weather of the point, but Varda is careful to establish that historically gleaning has been “women’s work” – even if the majority of present-day gleaners in the film are male. “Gleaning” as a homely figure for resistance and appropriation certainly has a … With Bodan Litnanski, Macha Makeïeff, Agnès Varda, François Wertheimer. Agnes Varda returns to the people she met in her 2000 documentary on gleaning and meets some new people who were inspired by her first film. Rent The Gleaners and I (2000) starring Bodan Litnanski and Agnès Varda on DVD and Blu-ray. Varda's city scavengers rifle through hastily abandoned open markets, restaurant Dumpsters, and piles of used furniture and appliances left by the side of … Agnès Varda entered the extraordinarily rich final phase of her legendary career with this casually brilliant documentary-cum-self portrait. Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris. But gleaners are largely forbidden in the Burgundy wine region, where surplus grapes are deliberately thrown on the ground to keep foragers away. The Gleaners and I explores gleaning — the act of collecting food from farmers’ leftover crops after they have been commercially harvested. It is a late-career personal essay by a filmmaker whose personal touch was incubated in one of the most personal of all national cinemas, the French New Wave of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Camera in hand, Varda interviews those for whom gleaning is a way of life, or an encompassing philosophy.