The Gleaners and I 2000 123movies

Watch: Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse 2000 123movies, Full Movie Online – An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s own director, Agnes Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip..
Plot: Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.
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Ratings:

	7.7/10 Votes: 7,602
	93% | RottenTomatoes
	83/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 124 Popularity: 8.482 | TMDB

Reviews:

One doesn’t normally use the word “fun” and documentary in the same sentence, but Varga has such a unique personality and style that her films are actually fun. The Gleaners and I may be the most fun and yet, Varga delivers the political message with Vaseline. At the same time, we get an education on found art.

The Gleaners and I is a documentary about gleaning as both a physical and metaphysical activity. Director Agnès Varda is herself a meta-gleaner; she’s a gleaner of gleaners the same way that Jesus was a fisher of men.

The film is a confluence of the practical and the artistic. Many of the people in the movie glean to eat (their children sing a revealing ditty: “Monday, potatoes/Tuesday, potatoes/Wednesday, potatoes again/Thursday, potatoes/Friday, potatoes/Saturday, potatoes again/Sunday, potatoes au gratin”). For others is a chosen lifestyle, or a hipster hobby.

And for Varda, it is an aesthetic endeavor; “I’m not poor, I have enough to eat,” she said in an interview, pointing to “another kind of gleaning, which is artistic gleaning. You pick ideas, you pick images, you pick emotions from other people, and then you make it into a film.” Thus, while most of the gleaners in the film collect objects they can use, Varda chooses a useless object – a handless clock – and repurposes it as an ornamental piece.

The Gleaners and I is almost 100% wheat except for the chaff of self-indulgence. The film gains a lot of momentum when Varda simply observes, and one of its greatest pleasures is how the filmmaker makes room for spontaneous diversions, becoming sidetracked in the pursuit of beautiful things and interesting people.

This momentum is lost when Varda points the camera at herself, a mistake that is obvious to everyone but her; in fact, in a follow-up released two years after the original film, one of her interviewees tells her, after watching the documentary, that the scenes she devotes to herself are “unnecessary”. That said, Varda does deserve a lot of credit for her ability to find beauty in the most unexpected places, both in the countryside and in the city, filming with one hand, and gleaning with the other.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 22 min (82 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Documentary
Director Agnès Varda
Writer Agnès Varda
Actors François Wertheimer, Agnès Varda, Jean La Planche
Country France
Awards 16 wins & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1
Camera Sony DSR-300, Sony DCR-TRV950E
Laboratory Laboratoires GTC, Joinville, France
Film Length N/A
Negative Format DVCAM, Mini DV
Cinematographic Process DV
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP), 35 mm