The Gleaners and I

The Gleaners and I
Directed byAgnès Varda
StarringBodan Litnanski
François Wertheimer
Release date
  • July 7, 2000 (2000-07-07) (France)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesFrench
English

The Gleaners and I (French: Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, lit. "The gleaners and the female gleaner") is a 2000 French documentary film by Agnès Varda that features various kinds of gleaning. It screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival ("Official Selection 2000"), and later went on to win awards around the world. In a 2014 Sight & Sound poll, film critics voted The Gleaners and I the eighth best documentary film of all time.[1] In 2016, the film appeared at No. 99 on BBC's list of the 100 greatest films of the 21st century.[2] 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.[3]

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.

  1. ^ "Silent film tops documentary poll". BBC News. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  2. ^ "The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films". BBC. 23 August 2016.
  3. ^ "The Gleaners and I (2000)". BFI. Retrieved 2022-12-01.