A thrilling subject, and Varda’s best film since Vagabond.

| May 2, 2024

A kind of arthouse personality cult, even as the international arthouse world itself was dying off...

| Mar 22, 2024

Agnès Varda's essay film about people who gather and pick vegetables and fruit after harvests are over in the country, and after farmers markets have packed up in the city, is serious, but light and airy.

| Sep 16, 2020

Fascinating.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 6, 2020

Why has The Gleaners and I struck such a chord? I suspect it's due in considerable part to Agnès Varda's own presence.

| Feb 24, 2020

One of Agnès Varda's best works, the down to earth charm effectively hides a damning political critique in plain sight.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 12, 2018

...minor Varda, in a way, but it's also a moving summation of her life's work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 24, 2017

Varda is, herself, a gleaner. Her eyes are her tools, and her camera is her basket. Insatiably curious, she seeks, finds, redeems. ... When we pay attention, attention pays.

| Original Score: A | Nov 23, 2011

A tribute to all the people who think outside the box.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 24, 2010

A moving humanist/social conscience documentary.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2006

strings together observations about psychotherapy, freeway traffic and the origins of cinema while opening our eyes to a subculture few of us ever think about.

| Sep 28, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Aug 26, 2005

Visually brilliant inside look at the world of food production.

| Dec 13, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 5, 2003

A pleasure to watch - part documentary, part personal essay, part unguided tour. It's a chance to understand ourselves differently by seeing the things we choose not to use.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 11, 2003

The Gleaners and I shows Varda in full flower, ever reaping what she has sown.

| Mar 10, 2003

However rudimentary her thesis on the subject is, Varda is able to explore her interest, pass it on to the viewer and still give them something to learn about.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2002

[A] lyrically ramshackle essay about people, including Varda herself, who don't fit into society's cubbyholes.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2002

A bewitching documentary that mischievously fuses the past with the present, the rich with the poor, the idle with workaholic

| Jul 18, 2002