Agnès Varda's Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse

Abstract

AbstractAgnes Varda's latest documentary, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse/Gleaners and I, was presented at the fifty-third International Festival at Cannes, in May 2000. Her points of departure are a word looked up in the Larousse dictionary (‘glaner’), the reproduction of the canonical painting that illustrates the article (‘Les glaneuses’ by Jean-Francois Millet), and more importantly, her interest in the ‘urban gleaners’ who live in her neighbourhood. Varda's original concern, respect and curiosity for those (extra)ordinary people who collect fruit and vegetables abandoned on the marketplace becomes a ludic road-documentary about different examples of gleaning, different types of gleaners. Two apparently disconnected narrative trends are woven into this film. On the one hand, as is often the case, Varda's poetic recirc;verie on the pleasure and violence of gleaning is accompanied by a serious exploration of the resemblance between filming and her subject matter: this is a portrait of the artist as ‘glaneus...

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