
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Globe and MailLiam LaceyFor the most part, Varda's home movie is a simple and sweet thing. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittA fascinating nonfiction voyage into rural and urban France, focusing on idiosyncratic individuals who live off things the rest of us throw away, from food to furniture. |
| Dallas Morning NewsChris VognarThe Gleaners and I is a film well worth finding. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonOf all the movies I've seen in the past several years, this is one of the ones I love the most. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordA funny sequence gets as many interpretations of the law that governs the gleaning around oyster beds as people providing them. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames Sanfordstrings together observations about psychotherapy, freeway traffic and the origins of cinema while opening our eyes to a subculture few of us ever think about. |
| New York Magazine/VulturePeter RainerThere's a timelessness, an immanence to what she (Varda) shows us. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen...minor Varda, in a way, but it's also a moving summation of her life's work. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannVarda's subject matter is surprisingly rich, but it's her own energetic, curious nature that gives the film its snap. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe Gleaners and I shows Varda in full flower, ever reaping what she has sown. |