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10.14.07

Toujours mangeant
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This afternoon I re-watched parts of Les glaneurs et la glaneuse. I especially wanted to watch the man who caught Varda's attention because he was always eating (toujours mangeant) as he gleaned the leftovers from city markets. (And to give you an idea of how primitive my knowledge of French is, I had to look it up because I didn't know anything about that form of manger. And who knows, without the English subtitles I might have missed it altogether.) He'd go along, picking through thrown-out food, and stuffing his mouth as he worked. Some greens went ...
10.13.07

Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
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Last night we finished watching The Gleaners and I, a film by Agnes Varda. I am not going to say it shows how the homeless and have-nots live in France, because (for example) it's not about "the homeless" even when it's about homeless people. It's about persons, some of whom are homeless, down on their luck, in difficult circumstances. And not all of the gleaners are have-nots. Some do it out of general principles. There are a lot of ways of living off of other peoples' throwaways. I especially liked that the Netflix DVD has an ...

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