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  • Starring: Agnès Varda, François Wertheimer
  • Summary: 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, Agnès Varda. The aesthetic, political and finally moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip, and in previous generations were immortalized by the likes of Millet and Van Gogh. (Zeitgeist Films)… Expand

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  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    A 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.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    100
    Of all the movies I've seen in the past several years, this is one of the ones I love the most.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    The story of herself (Varda), a woman whose life has consisted of moving through the world with the tools of her trade, finding what is worth treasuring.

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