Les glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après (2002)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Agnès Varda

Release Date:

18 December 2002 (France)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot Keywords:

Sequel | Homelessness | Number In Title

Cast

Bodan Litnanski	...	Himself
Macha Makeïeff	...	Herself
Agnès Varda	...	Herself
François Wertheimer	...	Himself

Also Known As:

Deux ans après (France) (short title)
The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (USA)

Runtime:

63 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Certification:

France:U

Company:

C.N.D.P.

Movie Connections:

Follows Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000)

Soundtrack:

Fugue

Amiable addition to number one.

Agnéz Varda enjoyed making her scavenger film so much she went out with her handi-cam and did it again. The whopping great distribution can't have slowed her down either.

One of the subjects says she shouldn't have been in the first one so much, so she minimises her presence - ineffectively because the winning, quirky first person author is still the star. Detail of the character who lives off garbage and runs in the Paris marathon is particularly intriguing. The insets of the first film, the hand made movie from the early years or the withered heart shape potato that got a mutter of recognition when I saw it, all liven up the film. I liked the second thought ending too.

These films are like spending time in the company of a great raconteur. The fact that she turned out to be possibly the most accomplished Nouvelle Vague director is a bonus. Hope she does another twenty.