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.
Direction
Varda's voice: warm, stubborn, unmistakably hers.
Cinematography
Her handheld heartbeats—potatoes and people equally luminous.
Editing
Seamless collage of essay, memoir, and accidental poetry.
Director
Agnès Varda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Varda shot much of this on a digital camera she was learning to use—her fumbling with technology becomes part of the film's texture.
This helped spark the 21st-century essay-film renaissance; without it, no 'Faces Places,' no Kirsten Johnson, no sensory ethnography.
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