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Director AGNÈS VARDA

Scene from THE GLEANERS & I

"THE GLEANERS AND I takes its title and inspiration from an 1867 painting by Jean-François Millet that shows three women in a wheat field, stooping to pick up sheaves and kernels left behind after the harvest... The painting sent Ms. Varda, a warm, intrepid woman and one of the bravest, most idiosyncratic of French filmmakers, on a tour of her own... She is a constant, funny presence in the film, providing piquant voice-over narration and allowing herself visual and verbal digressions on the state of her aging hands, the water damage on her ceiling... THE GLEANERS AND I is both a diary and a kind of extended essay on poverty, thrift and the curious place of scavenging in French history and culture... studded with found metaphors and serendipitous insights." - A.O. Scott, The New York Times.

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Links:

• THE GLEANERS & I Info on Upcoming Movies.com
• Zeitgeist Films Official THE GLEANERS & I Page
• Preview the Trailer
• THE GLEANERS & I review on Yahoo UK
• THE GLEANERS & I review on film.guardian.co.uk
• THE GLEANERS & I review by Variety.com
• The Image Les Glaneuses (The Gleaners) by artist Jean-François Millet, an inspiration for the movie
• Previously at Film Forum: THE WORLD OF AGNÈS VARDA Film Series

	Mr. Raymond Dessaud explains the laws on gleaning
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