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GARBAGE

Agnés Varda put together an extremely idiosyncratic documentary in 2000 and then did a followup in 2002. It was a national sensation in France and is one of the NYTimes 1176 Best Films.

Glaneurs et la glaneuse, Les / The Gleaners and I (2000)

It is a look at the modern form of gleaning carried beyond its agricultural sense and extended to all manners of gleaning including, of all things, psychiatry; pouring through the leftovers of the past.

I said it was idiosyncratic.

It is also wonderful and the omnipresence of Varda with her exceptional digital video camera is, at times, gasp producing.

You will enjoy it as we did. The disc has the followup program she did as well. I don't usually watch the boni and only turned this on out of curiosity. We stayed the course.

Oh. And the whole thing is/was based on gleaner art, chief of which is The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet. Prints of this painting (shown) were everywhere when I was a kid. My Aunt Flora had one. They were meant to present the moral value of conservation. Using it all.

I am giving this a 5 out of Netflix5. I really enjoyed it.