The Gleaners and I
Agnès Varda
With Bodan Litnanski, Agnès Varda, François Wertheimer
FR – 2000 – DCP – 82′
French spoken, Dutch subtitles
The film starts at 8:00 p.m.
Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse (2000) is one of Varda’s most poetic and socially engaged documentaries. With her characteristic curiosity, Varda explores the French countryside to follow “gleaners”: people who collect leftover crops, waste, or forgotten objects for reuse. Sometimes out of necessity, sometimes out of idealism, always with inventiveness and attention to detail.
Varda herself appears as a playful guide and narrator, using her camera and voice to observe without judgment. The film is both a social portrait and a meditation on time, value, and human creativity: what seems lost gains new meaning. Light, sharp, and warm, Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse shows how everyday life can be a source of poetry.
06.05.2026, 20:00
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