Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse
Agnès Varda
Here and there in France, Agnès Varda has come across gleaners, foragers, rummagers and scavengers. Through necessity, purely by chance or out of choice, these people pick up left-over items discarded by others. Their world is a surprising one. It is a far from the world of yesterday gleaners, peasant women who rummaged for bits of wheat left after the harvest. Potatoes, apples, discarded foodstuffs, things without owners, clocks without hands are the fare of today's gleaners…
With : Bodan Litnanski, Agnès Varda, François Wertheimer
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Didier Doussin, Stéphane Krausz, Didier Rouget, Pascal Sautelet, Agnès Varda
Editing : Jean-Baptiste Morin, Laurent Pineau, Agnès Varda
Music : Joanna Bruzdowicz, Isabelle Olivier
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Didier Doussin, Stéphane Krausz, Didier Rouget, Pascal Sautelet, Agnès Varda
Editing : Jean-Baptiste Morin, Laurent Pineau, Agnès Varda
Music : Joanna Bruzdowicz, Isabelle Olivier
Production : Ciné Tamaris
Distribution: Ciné-Tamaris
Distribution: Ciné-Tamaris
“This film is a documentary by its subject. It came about from various circumstances. Emotions relating to precariousness, new uses of small digital cameras and the desire to film what I saw of me: my hands ageing and my hair going grey. My love of painting also wanted to express itself”. This is how Agnès Varda recalls her intentions. It starts with a slightly old-fashioned term, the fact of “gleaning”, to make a film which is both rigorous and impressionistic. It is also a film like her, a film which listens to people who are the mirrors behind which she hides to bring out her own life.