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Hot docs (Television program)
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| Summary |
Winner of Best Documentary at the 2000 European Film Awards, Agnès Varda's beautifully crafted film is an intimate inquiry into French life, as lived by France's poor and provident. Varda's film takes gleaners as her point of departure i.e. people who pick at already-harvested fields for leftovers Individuals who were immortalised in previous generations by painters like Jean-François Millet, Vincent Van Gogh and Jules Breton. Varda's investigation into modern gleaners creates a portrait of contemporary France through the vista of those at the margins of French society. This film formed part of the 2001 Sydney Film Festival. Director Agnès Varda is in her early 70s and has been making films for more than 40 years, starting with her first feature in 1954, La Pointe Courte. "Two years later", a sequel to "The Gleaners and I", revisits the characters and issues of that film and explores the many emotional and creative responses elicited by it. Varda also speaks to the individuals featured in the original film two years on, and they discuss what it really means to be a gleaner in contemporary France and what the consequences have been for them after the success of the first film. (From France, in French, with English subtitles) |
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Available as videocassette (VHS) or DVD. (85 min.) |
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Off-air recording of SBS-TV broadcast December 7, 2004, April 11, 2006. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
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DVD |
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Rated: G |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
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Poor -- France
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| Author |
Varda, Agnès
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SBS-TV
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