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 | | It's not entirely unexpected that, after 15 feature films, Agnès Varda has arrived at a video documentary about all the stuff on the ground, the figs, tomatoes, grapes, apples or potatoes that don't fit the specs by a whisker, or worse that are two headed Siamese mutants that to Varda's eye are heart-shaped. |
 | | At any rate, a small digital videocam set Varda free to film not simply the real France, but the France she knows well enough to know that she is nearer the end of her time than the beginning. |
 | | In Gleaners, Agnès Varda, the ultimate actor in her own film, has crossed the threshold of her 70s, and sees in others' hunt for junk the raveling strands of her life: widow to Jacquot de Nantes, mother of a wild boy, filmmaker, arguer, seeker, persistent old lady on the verge of au revoir. |
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