France

Les glaneurs et la glaneuse

Along the French Roads she travels, Agnès Varda meets with many gleaners. These people, men or women, are gatherers, recyclers, genuine treasure hunters. Out of necessity, chance or choice, the gleaners deal with what others have discarded. Their world is an astonishing one that has nothing to do with that of the ancient gleaners: these peasant women who gathered the wheat left behind after the harvest. Varda is a gleaner too and her documentary film is a subjective one. There is no age for curiosity. Making a film is also a sort of gleaning.

Filmography:
1954: La pointe courte
1961: Cléo de 5 à 7
1964: Le bonheur
1965: Les créatures
1985: Sans toit ni loi
1994: Les Cent et Une nuits
Director Agnès Varda (France)
Original Version French
Subtitles English
Photography Stéphane Krausz, Didier Rouget, Didier Doussin, Pascal Sautelet, Agnès Varda
Sound Emmanuel Soland, Nathalie Vidal
Editing Agnès Varda, Laurent Pineau
Production Ciné Tamaris
Distribution Ciné Tamaris
Music Joanna Bruzdowicz
2000, color, DV et mini DV, 82'