Directed by:
Agnès VardaScreenplay:
Agnès VardaCinematography:
Patrick BlossierComposer:
Joanna BruzdowiczCast:
Sandrine Bonnaire, Yolande Moreau, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss, Jacques Berthier, Laurence CortadellasPlots(1)
Sandrine Bonnaire won the Best Actress César for her portrayal of the defiant young drifter Mona, found frozen to death in a ditch at the beginning of Vagabond. Agnès Varda pieces together Mona’s story through flashbacks told by those who encountered her (played by a largely nonprofessional cast), producing a splintered portrait of an enigmatic woman. With its sparse, poetic imagery, Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi) is a stunner, and won Varda the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. (Criterion)
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This is definitely not a film that will win me over. It turned out to be a film that just doesn't appeal to me. I did like the form of this essentially fiction documentary about how life can turn out. Actually, it's a reconstruction. Strange scenes, strange images, yet all realistic. Overall, I just wasn't impressed and I didn't discover the magic of this film. To be honest, the whole time I was wondering why I was watching it.
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