THE GLEANERS AND I: TWO YEARS LATER

THE GLEANERS AND I: TWO YEARS LATER (LES GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE... DEUX ANS APRÈS), 2002
France | DCP, Color, 64 min | French
Actors: Bodan Litnanski, Macha Makeïeff, Agnès Varda

In this film, intended as a sequel to The Gleaners and I that she made in the year 2000, she revisits the people she met when she was making The Gleaners and I two years later and turns her camera towards the people who reached out to her because of the first film. This film, which shows us cross-sections of the lives of those who cling to life despite a variety of physical, economic or spiritual hardships, the director simply asks a few basic questions and then listens. She approaches everyone with the same distance, including those who are pleased with the attention the first film brought them, those who were able to direct their lives in a positive direction and those who were able to overcome great hardships, she simply allows the viewer to experience that moment.