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The Gleaners and I (Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse)

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama, Documentary
Release Date:March 7, 2001
Running time:82 minutes
Cast:Bodan Litnanski, Agnes Varda, Francois Wertheimer, Margaret Dumont, Virginia Grey
Director:Agnes Varda
Producer:Agnes Varda
Writer:Agnes Varda
Distributor:Zeitgeist Films

Description: Both a diary and a kind of extended essay on poverty, thrift and the curious place of scavenging in French history and culture--a documentary capturing the world of French gleaners who collect and make use of what others have discarded.

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