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Vagabond (Widescreen)

Sandrine Bonnaire (Actor), Macha Mril (Actor), Agns Varda (Director) | Rated: R (Restricted) | Format: DVD
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

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Sandrine Bonnaire plays Mona, a vagabond found dead from exposure in the opening scene, whose final few months we follow in flashback. Traipsing through the French countryside in winter, Mona skips along from one situation to another, more interested in survival and sustenance than making any kind of permanent connection, resolute in her individuality. But she touches the lives of those around her, from a cultured professor who sees in her a romantic symbol of social freedom to a farming couple who offers her their way of life with a plot of land to a widow whose stiffness is mellowed by her directness. Yet she remains enigmatic as everyone projects their own fantasies on the alienated figure who meets every obstacle with a retreat to the road. Agnes Varda's chilly view weaves in commentaries and direct address of the bystanders and bit players whose lives are touched by Mona, but they ultimately reveal more about the speaker than the drifter. By the end of the film we don't know much more about her beyond her steely immutability and disconnection, and Varda is resolute in her no-apologies, no-excuses portrait. It's an assured film rich in detail with an enigma at the center. --Sean Axmaker

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Sandrine Bonnaire won a César award for her portrayal of Mona, a defiant young drifter who is found frozen in a ditch. Using a largely non-professional cast, famed New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda recollects Mona's story through the flashbacks of those who encountered her, producing the splintered portrait of an enigmatic woman. Told in sparsely poetic images set against the frozen landscape of mid-winter Nîmes, this is Varda's masterpiece. Criterion presents Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi) in a brilliant color transfer supervised by the director.

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5.0 out of 5 stars VAGABOND, Sep 22 2003
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"valeska_" (The Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vagabond (Widescreen) (DVD)
The film opens on the scene of a bare vineyard, it's winter, and a worker is collecting vines off the ground after pruning. He suddenly comes upon a woman, sprawled dead in the frost covered ditch, nothing but an old dirty blanket on her back. Her face is contorted with pain from the cold she suffered. Her hair looks almost gray from being frozen.

The police come to investigate, she's got no identification with her.
But as the film progresses we learn her name is Mona, short for Simone. In flash backs we see her traveling like a leaf on the wind, never staying in one place for too long, hitching rides, and pitching her tent. Bumming cigarettes, and getting water and bread (sometimes dope) from kind strangers, a few she gets to know, but they never really figure out who she is. But, they agree as they talk to the camera, she's someone they'll never forget.

The film takes place during winter, Mona says she likes to travel then because there aren't that many people out, and it's easier to get a ride. Those who she meets, are mostly good, but some bad. She experiences the perils of a young woman traveling alone. Hunger, cold, rape... She isn't a naive street urchin, but a gritty character, tough and defiant.

I found Mona, so endearing and painfully haunting. I became more and more sad, to know she had died. And when that tragic moment came, I couldn't help but cry a little. Sandrine Bonnaire made her seem so real. And I love how the movie was shot. Told in flashbacks, by the people who had known her, however briefly. They speak directly to the camera. A very powerful film, very poignant and absolutely haunting.

Filmed in Nimes, France. In the stark landscape of mid-winter. Anges Varda's masterpiece. Sandrine Bonnaire won the Cesar award for best actress. Even though it's sad and ends (and begins) with tragedy, I am definitely going watch it again.

This film deserves no less than five stars!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Cliche, French style, Jun 28 2004
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Rocco Dormarunno (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vagabond (VHS Tape)
The drifter, the young one nobody understands, the free spirit, the girl you should never fall in love with...

Puh-lease! This has been rehashed so many times in songs and movies of the 50s, 60, and 70s that by the time this came out, it felt like a relic from a museum.

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3.0 out of 5 stars a very interesting film., May 25 2004
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Ted "Ted" (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vagabond (Widescreen) (DVD)
This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.

This film begins with the discovery of a dead young hobo woman in a ditch. The rest of the film is a retrospective of the events leading to her death as told to the police by people who had seen her. The film style reminded me of the Japanese film "Rashomon." The original French title of the film is "Sans toit ni loi" which means "Without roof nor law"

The Criterion DVD has no special features.

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