Movie Review

THE GLEANERS AND I (2012)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Rated: Unrated; Genre: Documentary; With: Agnès Varda

In this highly personal documentary, French new-wave vet Agnes Varda has produced a liberating assemblage of scavengers, collectors, and denizens of life's margins. Some of them scrounge for food, others for reasons more mysterious, inspired, artistic, or personal. Gleaners feels delightfully organic. A-

Originally posted Mar 30, 2001 Published in issue #589 Mar 30, 2001 Order article reprints
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