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- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC/EAN: 795975101530
- WAPI (Tower ID): 107007092
- Studio: Zeitgeist Films Ltd.
- Release Date: July 23, 2002
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #21603 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
- #3696 in Drama (See Top 100 Drama Bestsellers)
- #3695 in Drama, General (See Top 100 Drama, General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Gleaners and I" starring Agnes Varda to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Gleaners and I"Browse more products related to "Agnes Varda"ReviewUSA Today, 08/02/2002, p.12D, "...Illuminating and even charming..." Film Comment, 03/01/2001, p.76, "...Varda takes GLEANERS beyond the existential demands of scavenging to make the case for it as fun. She's rational, childlike, historical, certainly art-historical, legalistic, humanistic, and of course, persistent..." Entertainment Weekly, 03/23/2001, p.79, "...[A] liberating, personal documentary assemblage....GLEANERS feels delightfully organic, eccentrically rambling, the found artistic collage of a woman who herself loves to collect..." New York Times, 04/06/2001, p.8, "...Captivating....THE GLEANERS AND I is charged with the pleasure of discovery....It is typically brisk, dryly witty and inventive, unsentimental yet caring..." Release NoteDVD Features: Product NotesVeteran French filmmaker Agnes Varda ads a triumphant and ultra-contemporary chapter to her life's work of cinematic investigations into the lives of characters relegated to society's margins (usually women) with the graceful and compelling documentary, THE GLEANERS AND I. Departing from Jean-Francois Millet's celebrated 1867 portrait of women picking through a harvested wheat field entitled "Les Glaneuses," Varda constructs a modest and compassionate visual essay on the concept and lifestyle of "gleaning" or scavenging, once ubiquitous in rural 19th Century France. With digital camera in hand, Varda vagabonds around France in search of the 21st Century's incarnation of the gleaners. From potato fields in central France, to abandoned vineyards in Burgundy, to supermarket dumpsters in Paris, Varda's film portrays a completely surprising and ultimately complex populace, who subsist off of the waste of others. The film's casual style allows the intelligence, dignity, and honesty of the subjects to shine through as Varda herself pieces together a modern aesthetic and ideology of gleaning. With affectionate humor and searching intelligence, Varda points the camera at herself, marveling at her own process of aging and the gleaning that lies at the center of her own art and life. If You Enjoy "The Gleaners and I (DVD)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The Gleaners and I (DVD)"There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Drama, General BestsellersExplore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
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