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Agnes Varda went to San Francisco to promote her film "Les Creatures". Tom Luddy on Pacific Film Archives told her : "There is a man called Varda on a boat in Sausalito. Are you related?". "I dont know, lets find out" Agnes Varda replied.

They went there on a thursday and met this Yanco (Jean Varda) who was the cousin of her fathers. So she made this little movie about this old man, living on a boat with his hippie friends, making a living as a painter.

Altogether a nice little film, a typical Varda movie.

This film concerns gleaners, people who collects what other people throw away, food and junk etc. We met them at a potato field, on a cabbage field and on the markets. People who dont hesitate to look in the nearest thrash can for both breakfast and dinner.

We meet a man who always arrive to the fruit market after closing time to get parsley, and spends the evening teaching african immigrants how to read and write. And another man who builds high towers out of junk. People who are very poor, outside the community, but mostly happy.

One cant help to wonder why so food producers throw away so much when people go hungry. And why are todays society so focused on buying new things all the time, instead of repair things when they break.

Al Pacino gives a good performance as a bankrobber with bad luck. Unfortunately the movie is too long; after one hour you're waiting for the end, but the director stretches it out way too long.