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The Gleaners And I (2000)
Released By: Zeitgeist Films   Rating: Not Rated   In Theaters: N/A
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Studio: Zeitgeist Films
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: Agnes Varda
Language: English
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Published ID: 517285
UPC: 795975101530,
Plot: Legendary filmmaker Agnes Varda takes digital camcorder in hand and roams about the French countryside in search of gleaners. An age-old practice, as depicted in Millet's famous painting, performed traditionally by peasant women, gleaners scavenged the remains of a crop after the harvest. Varda finds their modern-day equivalent collecting rejected potatoes outside of Lyon, fallen apples in Provence, and refuse in the markets of Paris. Along the way, she talks to a man sporting yellow rubber boots who has lived on trash for ten years, a gourmet chef who gleans for his restaurant, a homeless doctorate in biology who teaches literacy courses to immigrants for free, a couple of artists who use trash in their work, and the grandson of early cinema innovator Étienne-Jules Marey. Along the way, Varda discusses heart-shaped potatoes, big trucks on the highway, the waste of consumerism, and the ravages of time. This film was screened at the 2000 {~Cannes} and {~Toronto Film Festivals}. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide


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