The Gleaners and I

The Gleaners and I French Les glaneurs et la glaneuse , The gleaners and the female gleaner is a 2000 French documentary film by Agns Varda that features various kinds of gleaning. It was entered into competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival Official Selection 2000, and later went on to win awards around the world. In a 2014 Sight and Sound poll, film critics voted The Gleaners and I the eighth best documentary film of all time.

Vardas other subjects include artists who incorporate recycled materials into their work, symbols she discovers during her filming including a clock without hands and a heartshaped potato, and the French laws regarding gleaning versus abandoned property. Varda also spends time with Louis Pons, who explains how junk is a cluster of possibilities.This film has an unexpected brief interview with the psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, plus followup segments on some of the featured people. ........

Source: Wikipedia