THE GLEANERS & I

Across France, Agnès met gleaners, scavengers, collectors, and finders. Through necessity, chance, or choice, they are in contact with what others leave behind. Their world is surprising. It is far removed from that of the gleaning women of the past who gathered ears of wheat left in the fields after the harvest. Potatoes, apples, and other discarded food, objects without owners and clocks without hands, these are the gleanings of our time. But Agnès herself is also the gleaner of the original title (“Les glaneurs et la glaneuse”) and her documentary is a subjective one.