The Gleaners and I (2000)
- Original title
- Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse
- Directed by
- Agnès Varda
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.6 of 10 from 223 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Agnès Varda meets people who collect leftover crops and discarded objects. She films their lives and also turns the camera on herself.
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What happens
The Gleaners and I (French: Les glaneurs et la glaneuse) is a 2000 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda that explores the subject of gleaning—historically, the gathering of farm produce left after formal harvest, here including rural-urban reclamation of disposed food and objects. The Gleaners and I was an "Official Selection" of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, and later went on to win several major film awards. In a 2014 Sight & Sound poll, film critics voted The Gleaners and I the eighth best documentary film of all time. In 2016, the film appeared at No. 99 on BBC's list of the 100 greatest films of the 21st century. The film was included for the first time in 2022 on the critics' poll of Sight and Sound's list of the greatest films of all time, at number 67. In 2025, it ranked number 88 on The New York Times' list of "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century." In 2002, Varda released a follow-up, The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (French: Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après), in which she revisited some of the people and themes of this film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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