| Rating: A-, December 17, 2001 This FAQ is empty. Verified reviews are considered more trustworthy by fellow moviegoers. ... See full summary ». The image is an example of a ticket confirmation email that AMC sent you when you purchased your ticket. | Rotten (3). “On this type of gleaning—of images, impressions, emotions—there is,” Varda insists midway through the movie, “no legislation.” A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Agnès Varda's essay film about people who gather and pick vegetables and fruit after harvests are over in the country, and after farmers markets have packed up in the city, is serious, but light and airy. The Gleaners and I takes a compassionate look at a rarely considered subculture whose individualism resonates powerfully with director Agnès Varda's humanistic approach. Sign up here. View production, box office, & company info. Cinemark Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story. You may remember director Agnès Varda from her 1986 film, VAGABOND. The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. ...minor Varda, in a way, but it's also a moving summation of her life's work. (2000). Don't have an account? As she films her face passing behind it, she notes, `A clock with no hands is my kind of thing. Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris. The gleaners pluck the fruits before their decay, as Varda lives life to the fullest, defying the inevitability of death. However, the sheer waste of 25 tons of food at a clip is legitimately something to cluck about. |, November 12, 2018 |, June 27, 2001 | Rating: 3/4, September 16, 2020 Documentary filmmaker Agnes Varda studies the modern day foragers of France who now glean (or, gather) everything from grapes to garbage to clocks without hands in "The Gleaners & I." The theme of the film suggests that film-making is a kind of `gleaning' in itself. |, November 23, 2011 Quirky and exuberant, Varda, 72, is at an age where she's more concerned with having fun with her craft than impressing anyone. 31 of 35 people found this review helpful. Varda is an old hippie, and her sympathies clearly lie with such characters who choose to live off the grid. It is a practice that is practical in terms of supplementing the food sources for the working poor and a good lesson in how to avoid waste. The Gleaners and I is a film well worth finding. Anonymous. Synopsis. A film that presents the culture of gleaning in France. Was this review helpful to you? Don’t worry, it won’t take long. With Bodan Litnanski, Macha Makeïeff, Agnès Varda, François Wertheimer. With François Wertheimer, Agnès Varda, Jean La Planche, Bodan Litnanski. The result, The Gleaners and I, is a moving depiction of the people who — after the harvest — pick through the dirt to find potatoes and tomatoes left behind, scour the beach for oysters washed up after storms, pick grapes and figs that farmers reject, and go “dumpster diving” to recover discarded loaves of bread, sandwiches and other food. When she later forgets to turn off her camera, she films `the dance of the lens cap.' When we pay attention, attention pays. The director likens gleaning to her own profession-that of collecting images, stories, fragments of sound, light, and color.In this hybrid of documentary and reflection, Varda raises a number of philosophical questions. Beginning with the famous Jean-François Millet painting of women gathering wheat left over from a harvest, she focuses her ever-seeking eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. The Gleaners and I is a documentary that only Varda could have made, being something of a gleaner herself both in life and in her work. Now, gleaners are more likely to be outcasts and loners, forced to sift through the carelessly discarded scraps of a wasteful society. Taking everything from surplus in the fields, to rubbish in trashcans, to oysters washed up after a storm, the "gleaners" range from those sadly in need to those hoping to recreate the community activity of centuries past, and still others who use whatever they find to cobble together a rough art. For those who don’t know, gleaning consists of non-farmers collecting the year’s crops remains. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnes Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963. She doesn't even waste footage accidentally taken while the camera was left running and turns the footage into a little dance with the lens cap. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. Travelling along the French roads, director Agnes Varda meets many types of gleaner - men and women who gather and recycle what others have discarded. Use the HTML below. Regal Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.