"TWO YEARS LATER" "TH E GLEANERS AN D l TWO YEARS LATER" "With the gleaners of yesterday and today - l thank them" "TH E GLEANERS AN D l in under 3 minutes" "These thumbnails are from The Gleaners and I which came out in 2000." "You can see the repeated gesture of bending down to pick things up." "Gleaning urban waste, gleaning the earth's fruit, food abandoned on the ground." "Strangely, I was given some earth in Mainz from several European countries." "The Heimat Prize - "Heimat" meaning "homeland" - is the most appropriate trophy that this film has picked up:" "the medals, diplomas, pyramids, columns, etc." "and the prizes given to me in my old age." "Here they are." "Show's over." "Now let's move on." "Other rewards:" "letters and gifts" "Other rewards:" "letters and gifts" "None of my films prompted so many letters." "Often containing original items, embroidered cards, unusually-sized envelopes, tiny wallets, fragile little notes, feathers, images, photos, beautiful pictures..." "Sometimes I replied, not always." "Colors, collages... lf l didn't reply, I apologize and say thank you." "Who wrote to me from a train?" "And put a stamp on his travel wallet?" "And sent his cinema ticket and spoke for both of them?" "Who are they?" "Curious to meet them, I also took a train ticket and my new backpack." "As I went along the Loire, I look at Mauves Bridge." ""Jacquot" made an animation film on it when he was 1 1." "You can recognize the crosspieces and the bombing drawn frame by frame." "The airplanes go away..." "And I arrive in Trentemoult." "My passport!" "That day I had a sore throat." "We've never met but... I feel I know you." "This letter brought us together!" "They take me home, an old butcher's shop, now their workshop and the neighborhood workshop which salvages materials." "When we first arrived, we salvaged a lot of things from the markets." "Food... and these crates." "We find them useful for making all kinds of things." "We transform everyday life, we make it our own." "It takes different forms." "It may become a book or an installation." "Objects, too." " Practical, everyday objects?" " That, too." "They show me a collective book, made of leftovers, offcuts of drawings, pieces of paper and paintings." "Everyone did their bit." "They also show me a photo album." "Oh, look!" "We have this in common, too." "This potato warms my heart!" "As does their letter which he rereads to me." "I may be a boy who "doesn't cry", they say." "Tears came to my eyes for the second time that day." "I'm writing for both of us." "What effect does a film have?" "What reaches the filmgoer?" "That's my question." "What came through to you?" "I think that seeing this film was like a rebirth." "After what had happened..." "We had come for the death of a friend." "Then, this film just completely put us back in touch with ourselves... with life." "Yet it talks a lot about leftovers... things that are abandoned." "Yes, but..." "it's made by someone who's alive." "The filmmaker is very much alive." "So far, so good!" "So many people are poor, in precarious situations." " But they..." " ...get by, they adapt." "That's what life's about - learning to adapt." "I'll remem ber this lunch in the sunshine, with sunflower seeds in the salad." "I'll remem ber their lovely, smiling faces." "Philippe carefully reading his own letter," "Delphine's hair held up by a pencil, her hands upturned in offering, and the gust of wind when I was about to leave... shaking the pink flowers of their fruit tree while they finished their drinks." "The letters on the wall reminded us we were near Nantes, home of LU cookies." "Other letters awaited me when I arrived home." "The letter writers liked the film." "Some tell me about their lives, about gleaning..." "They enjoyed meeting the gleaners in the film, especially Alain F who impressed them." "They use the same words:" ""vegetarian", "black faces"," ""volunteer", "vegetarian"," ""biologist", "teaching illiterates"..." "alain F., market gleaner" "alain F., market gleaner newspaper seller and teacher I've often met Alain over the past 2 years." "Saturdays, I come at the end of the market." "We have a coffee when he's finished filling his big bag." "His blue bag was stolen, so now it's a red bag." "My personal situation hasn't changed." "I'm still a volunteer, gleaner and paper seller." "No change there!" "Financially speaking, yes, some people stop and buy my paper." "people who never stopped before do now after seeing the film." "They talk to me more." "Theater managers asked him to come along to the debates." "We said, "OK, hire him"." "After the film, I was contacted... 5 times." "He was paid to talk." "His pet subject:" "famine, world hunger." "He knows his subject and can quote statistics." "And the film?" "What do I think about it?" "Personally, I think that the film is... well-done... lt has reached a lot of people." "What are you less fond of?" "Your presence, mainly!" "I think your self-portrait is not well-done." "At least that's what I think..." "Not well-done or unnecessary?" "I think it's unnecessary." "It didn't bother people too much, though." "I haven't heard any remarks about it." "I glean, too." "I glean images for my film." "No, that's not it." "It's when you film yourself." "You're not picking things up - you're just there." "When you show your hair, your liver spots..." "You're showing your old age... lf people find it interesting, good for them, but I don't." "I didn't like that, but that's my opinion." "She's not that present." "She's always behind her camera." "I think so, too, but... it's good to hear other opinions." "Well, I saw the film several times, but..." " lt was on TV recently..." " Yes, on Arte." "Someone recorded it for me, and I enjoyed watching it again." " Still teaching people to read?" " Oh, yes." "He's a plucky lad." "Amazing." "What he does is so great..." "Don't exaggerate... I'm not exaggerating." "It makes you want to be a better person... to pay more attention to other people." ""Makes a change", as Telerama wrote." "Text and photos of Alain teaching students by night and gleaning his food by day." "He's exemplary." "He's much talked about." "He's a star ever since I saw him on TV." "After that TV report, I had the opportunity to go up and speak to him." "I wouldn't have dared to, otherwise." "He's clearly pleased by this." "Have the two of you become pals?" "When we run into each other..." "Let me buy you coffee." "It was a surprise to see that he was a volunteer although he's in a difficult financial situation." " Decaf?" " For me." "They talked about consumerism, ecology, gleaning." "She asked questions:" "Did he find all his food?" "Didn't he buy anything?" "Yes, the coffee." "And eating raw, cold fruit and vegetables and bread - is that a healthy diet?" "Yes, indeed. ln fact, next month, I'm running the marathon." "Porte de Versailles, the day before the race." "Here's where it starts." "City Hall offers the runners a plate of pasta." "Alain eats theses slow sugars..." "slowly." "He's taking it seriously." "I'll go home slowly, drink some horsetail tea, a yogurt, and there you are." "I drink the horsetail so that my knees don't hurt during the marathon, to make my joints solid." "7:30 next day, he's on the Champs Elysees." "It's cold." "He walked from Montparnasse." "He's warming up." "Do you train beforehand?" "No, but I walk." "Sometimes I walk from La Verriere to Paris." "It's 20 miles." "It's still cold." "The others are dressed in pullovers, space blankets, garbage bags, fine sweaters." "He's the only one in a "Street" jersey, an anti-exclusion newspaper." "And his special running shoes?" "Reeboks I gleaned in a trash can!" "Where?" "Montparnasse." "A decent pair of Reeboks." " Your size?" " Yes." "One last orange, then he's off on his 10th marathon." "They all throw away their pullovers and sweaters." "I never thought I'd find gleaning here." "Walking through the garbage bags, they pick up the discarded pullovers." "They are very picky as they fill their bags." "Then, along come the garbage trucks." "The runners are already far away." "29, 000 at the start." "Based on their average, we more or less know when they'll come by." "I wait in the park." "Alain shouldn't be long." "I scrutinize the crowd." "Jean-Noel manages to film Alain from the side." "I get distracted and nearly miss him." "I'm not much use as a sports reporter!" "Further on, a supplies post." "Isabelle films Alain." "Meanwhile, I hurry off in the car to Solferino Bridge, then I approach the runners." "I hope in vain to see Alain." "I go to the finishing line, the scene of enthusiasm and exhaustion." "Will Alain salute, yell, embrace someone?" "No." "He's arrived, he's here... just as calm and serious as at the start." "He has the microchip removed that was inserted at the start to record his exact time." "Alain ran the 26 or so miles in 3 hours 3 7 minutes." "He then walked for 4 hours to loosen up his muscles." "What a guy!" "I walk slowly, but often, sometimes with the camera pointing down to record the voices of people who don't want to be filmed." "In town or in the country." "I return to the potato growers of Beauce, the region of a thousand towns ("villes")." "Potato growers" "We came to film you" "Do we look older?" "Younger?" "You don't look bad." "You've kept well!" "Everyone says those farmers are handsome." "They said that?" "No one ever phoned up to ask to marry us!" "Did you see the film?" "Actually, I arrived 1 0 minutes after the start of the film." "Unluckily for us, the bit we're in is at the start." "So, I had to stay in the theater and watch the second showing." "Shows I was determined!" "Lots of people from around here phoned up to say they'd seen us on TV." "We're not necessarily on the right side." "The bosses' side..." "Right, we're on the bosses' side but... it takes all sorts to make a world." "They were going to dump potatoes." "Nicolas took me with him." "On the way, he told me about his life, his family... his children, mostly." "Over the engine noise, his confidence and his confidences moved me." "He empties the truck." "I hoped I'd find more heart-shaped potatoes." "It's now the film's symbol." "Perhaps my emblem." "I film, I look..." "Ah, here's one!" "Phew, found one!" "One day, I receive an original drawing from Cardon." "A winged horse..." "and perhaps me." "I reply at once on my dictionary paper:" ""Thank you, dear Cardon." Then, he sends another gift." "A whole book." "I think to myself:" ""Thanks to my film which Cardon discovered, I discovered Cardon's world."" "Solitary people, people who have trouble understanding..." "A scream ing man." "Soon after, I see Edward Munch's Scream in Oslo where l went to present the film." "The Scream along with other paintings by him." "I tend to agree to show my film I tend to agree to show my film in towns with museums to discover or rediscover." "The title of my film in French, "The Gleaners and the Gleaneress" became "and I"." "In Portugal, I'm a "Respigadora"." "Ola!" "In Japan, it's "O Chi Bo Hi Lo Hi"..." "I think!" "More or less." ""Gleaning fallen wheat"." "The subtitle is "Agnes travels with her camera"." "Talking of traveling, it's always the same:" "windows of sky, stewed tea, and numb feet." "Back home." "Zgougou drinks milk, and me m ild tea." "A gift:" "jam made from gleaned grapes." "A gift:" "my initials made of chocolate." "Another gift from Japan for Children's Day:" "tiny candies." "Sophie from the 10 1 Nights crew sends a book made by her brother Guillaume." "It's a "thing for writing in"." "I never will - it's too good." "I can't get used to all the gifts from the audience." "I'm filled with wonder." "I receive books and projects on the subject of leftovers." "And beautiful leftovers." "Gleaner of inconsolable things" "Gleaner of inconsolable things I'll get everything out." "A dolly... I think this is magnificent, it's like a signal." "These little things..." "By the huge Palais de Chaillot," "Macha gets out her tiny, shabby objects." "It's as if gleaning is my mission." "I pick things up to tell our story." "I think that objects contain a part of us." " tell our story or...?" " Contain us." " Are you in this yellow doily?" " Yes." "It's fragile... I'm not a collector, I don't... look at an object for itself but..." "There's a huge transfer of things that are lost..." "Lost, picked up..." "There's this trade in all things..." "Connections, things which circulate." "They leave wonderful traces of... I imagine... the relationship people had with these objects." "It's a rather indirect, modest way of meeting these people." "It's as if they gave me a sign." "Are they the couple off a wedding cake?" "They were still wrapped." "They weren't used or chosen." "That interested me." "An inert object tells of life and celebrates it." "That's what an exhibition is:" "a celebration." "There's something painful in all of this." "The order seeks to ease that pain." "At the same time, there's an attempt at humor." "Dried, abandoned, artificial flowers." "I just put them there like that, as if they just landed on a table." "The table, the bed:" "the key furniture in the house." "This is the bed." "It is the scene of both desire and disaster." "It is both a bed... a nuptial bed, a tomb, a dream... the remains of an unforgettable day." "A sentimental gleaner, no doubt." "A gleaner of yore, perhaps." "A sentimental gleaner, no doubt." "A gleaner of yore, perhaps." "I receive a fine piece from a woman in Port-Vendres." "people reacted to my film by sending vegetables, veined leaves, a four-leaved clover, and letters." "Handwritten letters, some collectively written, all friendly." "A few neatly typed ones." "One with an anagram and a button stuck on it and a giant button photo." "Michel does button theme parties." "I call him Mr Buttons and off I go to see him." "Will we come unstitched?" "I identified with every twist and turn of your film ." "I pick up watch parts." "That's lost time." "Your clock with no hands is perfect." "I collect little things which are scattered here and there and which are no use." "4 or 5 years ago, I just became interested in buttons." "I started with the idea of a flock of buttons." "In terms of the form ..." "A flock of mutton or buttons?" "A flock of buttons because of the slight shift in meaning." "I thought, there's nothing more dumb than a button!" "It's round with 2 round holes." "In terms of the form, it's interesting to explore." "A mine of possibilities." "Then I started to sew on a white button with white thread in tribute to Malevich's White Square." "Then, a black button and thread." "And one thing just led to another." "As a child, I would play with my mom's button box." "So, I sensed there was something in it linked to the mother." "Patrimony with an "M" !" "I have my mother's button box." "My daughter does costumes, so she collects buttons." "In the end, I realized it had to do with the emotions, that it conveyed memories." "Today I picked up eleven." "Where?" "This one, Rue de la Pierre Plantee." " On the ground?" " Yes." "You're a button gleaner?" "It shows my journey." "I found the first in Buenos Aires, the second in Pnom Penh, the third here in Villefranche." "Maybe this was a portent of our meeting :" "I lost a button half an hour ago." "Here." "Maybe I can pick up one off you." "What you need is a little pink one with two holes." "Yes, that one." "Someone who lost a button misses it." "So, you're always in touch with the person who lost it." "I'd lost touch with the people from the trailers." "The people from the trailers." "Claude M ." "Claude had left the travelers' camp where l had filmed him." "I heard from various people that he was in central France." "I went back on the road." "I found him." "Things weren't working out too great at Etampes, you know." "Living in a trailer..." "Well, a friend said he'd help me out:" ""You can come here, no problem."" "Let me tell you something." "For now he lives here for now... I took him in." "That's good of you." "For a few months, then..." "Little George came to the camp and asked if I'd help his mom." "If it's for his mom, there's no problem." "I fix up the house, do this and that... the gardening." "The leaves need picking up, so I do it." "I look after..." "I look after the whole place." "In exchange, he gets board and lodging." "Well, a meal a day." "Your family?" "Your children?" "Not much news." "I don't even have any news of my mom ." "That's partly my fault." "For a while I really let myself... I did it myself." "I let myself go." "Now I want to fight back." "He seemed sincere and he hadn't drunk anything, but in the car, he stank of wine." "I might have the odd glass, but compared to before, when it was 2 or 3 bottles... I've totally changed !" "Claude's old pals" "Claude's old pals" "One day in Etampes, while I focus my camera, I recognize Gislaine." "I go nearer." "We met 2 years ago." "Yes, at the travelers' camp." " You're not there anymore?" " No." " And Bebert?" " l'm living with him in a garden." "A friend has a garden shed." " This is my place." " His place." "But it's tough." "We share our meals." "We help each other out." "You know, you look better than before." "I got a boyfriend." "We'll see..." "A lot of people don't like it." "Oh, why?" "He's West Indian." "I've known him for a month, but we see each other once a week." "I'm seeing him tomorrow." "You're in love?" "Well, yeah!" "They say that at my age..." "But you're never too old." "I'm 49 and he's 3 1." " He's a bit younger." " Yes, a bit." "Now I can go 5 or 6 days without drinking." " Maybe it's love?" " Maybe." "You used to drink a lot?" "Yes, I did, but I still drink." "Less than before, but I still do." "How much is "a lot"?" "Drinking a lot means... 10 to 15 liters a day." "It's an awful lot." "Liters of what?" "I drink rose. lt's terrible..." "Last time, I filmed you when you were shouting." " Can I put it in the film?" " No problem." "Claude, let's go see Gislaine, because... we got on well." "We can try..." "Get lost." "The lady wants to talk." "I don't wanna talk to anybody!" "Shut the door!" "Leave me alone!" "Are you angry?" "Or are you sick?" "Shut the door or I'll kick your head in!" "I was afraid I'd upset you." "You were so drunk that day." "Yes, I know." "So what?" "I want a lot of people to see that and understand." "Then they'll see what it's like to live in poverty in the street and all, and why they drink." "Some people want to stop drinking." "If they don't get help, they'll never manage it." "Will I still see you on Saturday?" "It's sunny here today." "Isn't it sunny there?" "well, the sun's in your heart." "That's a good start." "6 months later, quite by chance, while looking for someone at the Catholic Aid canteen, I was surprised to find Claude." "I let him finish eating his good, Catholic meal:" "salad, chicken, potatoes, cheese, and fruit." "We meet in the yard." "He has a nice jacket and shirt." "Now he's wired for sound." "I came back, I've got friends here." "I met Gislaine." "She got me in there." "I lived there for a couple of months." "When I saw how things were there, I went to Coluche's." "They helped me find..." "The Coluche who started the Restaurants of the Heart." "I know Paquerette ( Daisy )." "She helped me get into the Sonacotra shelter." "They took me right away." "Now I don't sleep in trailers or outside." "I'm in the warm." " ls life better?" " Much." "Got a TV?" "In the evening, I watch the news." "I like that." "I helped Gislaine get into the Sonacotra." "She's there now, not outside." " You're still friends?" " Oh, yeah, sure." "We're not together now, but we get on, we see each other a lot." "A change for her, too?" "Yes, I think so." "Starting with personal hygiene and so on." "is she still in love?" "With her guy from Martinique, I suppose so." "I'm more independent now." "I'm not at the mercy of..." "Do this or do that..." "The man from Aix who had big boots" "The man from Aix who had big boots" " Peek-a-boo!" "It's me!" " Ah, it's Francois." "A little kiss." "We were to meet in Aix, but Francois came to Paris." "That's right." "We saw you walking around Aix, proud and virtually proclaiming the right to salvage things." "2 years later, I still proclaim that right, but that right isn't granted to me anymore." "I thought there was a problem." "One day, you called me, not from home." "I wasn't exactly home - l was in the psychiatric ward." "Francois took home stuff which he stored in the cellar and stairwells." "The neighbors called the police." "There was trouble between them and me." " And?" " The police considered it necessary to put me under psychiatric observation." "How did you feel?" "It was hard." "I felt victimized and condemned at the same time." " By who?" "Society?" " By society, in a way." "They don't like the way I live." "Didn't a neighbor say you were nice?" "Being nice isn't enough for them." "You have to be normal, too." "What happened to your boots?" "The boots are very symbolic, because when I was institutionalized, they were worn out and went in the trash." "So, what the trash gave, the trash took away." "I'm no longer the lord of the town." "In a way, I'm the prisoner of the town." "And yet, not long before, on the TV show, Nulle Part Ailleurs ( Nowhere Else ), he was sure of his right and his choices." "You've lived 100% off salvaging for 1 0 years." "So, is it by choice?" "Absolutely. I'm someone who eats 1 00% trash." "The body's cells are regenerated every 7 years, so I'm 1 00% trash." "My clothes are 1 00 trash." "It's a choice on ethical grounds." "What I hate seeing is people all over the world going hungry." "That will always be the case, but most of all, I hate seeing everything people throw out." "What's the best you found?" "A whole vacuum-packed "foie gras"." "Top quality..." "Vacuum-packed duck." "Another thing which breaks my heart is the stock of frozen fish." "This wastage is scandalous, so gleaning makes sense." "It makes sense not to throw out yogurt once it's expired, not to throw out fish once it's officially expired." "The food industry has got incredibly high safety standards." "Do you never get sick?" "Never!" "No, never." "recycling RAP" "recycling RAP" "Are you OK with people starving?" "No one cares" "Look at the market stalls" "Look at the food thrown away" "Bend down, but don't lower yourself" "When I see them stooping I suffer for them I hurt to see them salvaging for food" "Having to pick up food that's rotting" "Going around markets, eating trash" "There are only leftovers left" "They salvage things of no value to us" "Before the street sweepers come" "The man with the artichoke" "The man with the artichoke" "As well as salvaging food, I'm a vegetarian." " ls that all you live off?" " No, but... I try to keep my hand in." "With our present and future governments, I don't think we'll have much chance of moving forward and saving people from poverty." "Look at this well-cleaned artichoke." "Even in poor countries, some social classes waste a lot, too." "Wasting something shows a lack of respect for the worker who made it." "That's one of the main reasons I salvage." "I've "recycled" myself in anti-consumerism." "As I'm a vegetarian, I don't have the problem of eating meat that has gone bad." "If a vegetable has gone bad, it shows." "You don't take it." "And in theory, it's not toxic." " Where do you live?" " ln a squat." "We don't live in places now - we squat." "Why are you filming this?" "I tell him it's a documentary." "I've spent 2 years talking to salvagers and I film them." "I enjoyed filming him." "I also enjoy filming potatoes, life going by, and cats." "Hi Salomon, so long Charly" "Hi Salomon, so long Charly" "Hello, Salomon." "How goes it?" " lt's been a while." " Unbelievable!" "Two years!" "Salomon takes me to the house we filmed in." "He only has the garden key." "Charly's house." "A face like Ho Chi Minh's." "Charly is no more." "He died a few months ago." " He was your friend?" " Yes." "And it's hard to... get along without him." "It really is." "I feel so sad." "Charly went out on Wednesdays to go to the Post Office and to come see me." "More than a customer, he became a friend." "One thing I remember about him was that he came to offer me champagne before Christmas." "And he had a sword in his cane." "Everyone knew that." "What can you say about Charly?" "He was a wise man." "A wise man." "Here and there, bit by bit I work with the merchants every Wednesday and every Sunday." "I unload the goods off their trucks." "I help them set up." "This morning, I got 1 50 francs." "And later on, when the market's over, they'll pay me some more." "Every little helps..." "Yes, but it's not much." "They just take advantage." "Oh, you know..." "I don't do very much." "Here and there, bit by bit... ls it enough to live on?" "well, it's not bad." "This is my bedroom." " Can you sleep in there?" " Sure, no problem." "Where do you find water and so on?" " l've got water." " Where?" "Show me." "I've always got water." " Where do you wash?" " At the garage." " They have a shower?" " Yes." "If you know how to get by... you'll always be alright." "Are you mad at anyone?" "No, no!" "No way." "On the contrary." "I prefer to make people laugh, make them happy, cheer them up." "A bedroom in an old van, the washing machine on the sidewalk, an armchair, two armchairs, a sofa..." "That reminds me of something." "An Emotion Picture by Agnes" " This one?" " Yes." "Let's roll it." "Don't hurt yourself." "3 children run past." "3 children run past." "3 children." "There's the tale of the three little children who gleaned in the fields." "Alone or with mom." "Poor children." "The sky is threatening, a storm is brewing." "The children must be afraid." "The storm also threatens the Chambaudoin Gleaners, painted by Hedouin in 1 852 before Millet's Gleaners." "When a painting leaves its reserve" "Now we can caress the painting!" "I was invited, having brought this painting out of the shadowy reserve, to witness its unpacking after its restoration." "I'm completely carried away to take part in this painting's history." "After the film came out, many people asked to see this painting." "I thought that it should be the first painting to be restored and displayed for the opening of the old museum's reserve." "Here's Brigitte Laurencon, the curator, telling the story:" "I phoned up and spoke of this hidden painting I knew about, I had come to film, the painting had been brought up into the light of day." "When we came to your little courtyard, it suddenly became windy." "Your hair and your skirt all..." "Suddenly there was the gust of wind before the impending storm." "It seemed like a miracle of cinema:" "you organize things, the people are kind, competent, favorable, cooperative..." "Then, this marvelous gust of wind comes along." "And no filmmaker can order and obtain that." "Nor did I order or choose this calendar with Jules Breton's Calling the Gleaners." "The mailman from Bonnieux chose it for me." "He also gave me a painting in which he's tall and handing me a letter." "At least I think it's me." "This is the painting mailman, Jackie Patin." "I liked his gift." "Another funny gift." "Another funny gift." "Now it's the opposite:" "I'm the giant, according to this supposedly crazy guy, Jacques Arnaud." "A drawing by Chris Marker with the famous cat, Guillaume en Egypte." "A drawing by Chris Marker with the famous cat, Guillaume en Egypte." "He reminds me that in his CD-ROM lmmemory - a unique work - we see Gleaners picking up a bloody silhouette, crushed by a nightmarish tank." "Gleaners galore!" "I'm shown them, I'm sent them, I see them everywhere." "Could Jean-Francois Millet ever have imagined so many of his Gleaners in so many colors?" "Hand-colored postcards..." "The brightest one was sent to me by Pani." "The most eccentric is Prevert's version." "Laurent Roth sent a copy of the collage." "I go to the National to film the original and study the collage close up." "It becomes a game of Spot the Differences!" "To compare the aprons, the photocopy and a postcard." "The bow has become a propeller." "Only the gleaner on the right can fly!" "Lubtchansky sends me a photo of his collection of "chromo-Gleaners"." "Like me, he's a fan of "picker-up-ers"." "Not to be outdone, Leendert de Jong sends me a Dutch porthole with the Gleaners inside." "The frames vary." "Except the Orsay one, they're modest." "This painting has become popular." "Even embroideresses reproduce it." "And advertisers." "This is the smallest picture of the Gleaners with advertising on the back." "Against poultry cholera "Gallia Powder"" "The stamps from Togo are small, too." "The gleaners of stars is a charming idea." "Leftover stars." "Gleaners of stardust." "More down-to-earth:" "let's talk potatoes!" "Some light-hearted education..." "The heart-shaped potato I launched bounced back:" "I get them in my mailbox and even in a letter." "Or in pictures." "This one offered up in memory of a child." "One can't help but be moved." "People bring them, too." "I treat them like treasures." "I watch them grow old." "Then, I get a heart-shaped carrot." "A carrot with 2 ventricles or 2 heads." "It was taken by a documentary maker, Remy Batteault." "He says his mother found the carrot." "I have to go find her." "Ah, it's the card he sent you?" "I didn't know." ""After the now ubiquitous heart-shaped potato," "Ma Josette has found..."" "I'm far too emotional to be able to speak!" " What your son did was great." " Yes, that's true." "Read it out to me." ""After the now ubiquitous heart-shaped potato," "Ma Josette has found for you the heart-shaped carrot." "The whole thing was of course done without any special effects and can be used in The Gleaners and I, Part ll."" "What a story!" "He talks of his projects in his letter to me." ""l'm thinking of you as I'm making a documentary on my family's butcher's."" "The store gives me the chance to communicate with people." "I have a lot of customers with whom I exchange im pressions and so on." "The Gleaners and I, for everyone here," " was marvelous." " Very instructive." "People are deeply moved by this film." "There is an intensity of feeling." "It's the people in it that are extraordinary." "Make no mistake." "They are the actors in the film and it's true that they are very touching." "I've got Rosette sausages for you all, which I made myself." "Ah, the Rosette is my passion." "It's the thing I like making best of all." "I've won 1 2 gold medals with that Rosette since I started." "I'm so fond of this particular product that I like it when people try it and give me their opinion." " 3 Rosettes..." " There you go." "Thanks, Josette, thanks, Roger." "Rosette comes from Roger and Josette:" ""Ro" and "sette"." "As luck would have it, Roger met Josette, and Roger likes making Rosettes!" " For a long time..." " A long time what?" "I've liked Josette!" "A fine declaration!" "Thank you." "Dare I say it?" "From Rosette to rose..." "Let's just say, from a Beaune street to the slopes of Pommard..." "Psychoanalysis is gleaning" "Psychoanalysis is gleaning I'll open up." "You came to see 2 years ago for this film." "I didn't know you were... a learned philosopher of psychoanalysis." "I didn't even know you had written books nor that you compiled the Language of Psychoanalysis with Pontalis." "But one has to accept that one makes a documentary spontaneously, instinctively even." "In the film, we went from wine growing to psychoanalysis." "I spoke about the question of grape gleaning." "Of course, that was what attracted you :" "seeing all those grapes on the ground, wondering how to use them." "And it didn't occur to me that you didn't ask me if there was gleaning in psychoanalysis." "And yet that's what was missing in what I told you." "When I left, I felt stupid..." "And I couldn't believe my stupidity for not having thought about it." "The analyst's job, when he is analyzing someone in the Freudian way - with a chair and a couch - you really can call it a kind of gleaning." "That's not going too far." "In other words, we pay attention to things no one else does:" "what falls from speech." "What is dropped, what is picked up..." "Words which are beside usual speech are of special value to psychoanalysts, because things which are picked up or gleaned are more valuable to us than what is harvested." "Isn't there also a notion of poverty?" " A lack?" " Yes, indeed." "The psychoanalyst is also in a state of poverty in that he is in a state of not knowing." "He doesn't know beforehand what he'll glean." " So, that's his poverty." " That's funny." "Isn't it the patient who comes to see the analyst who lacks something?" "Yes, he lacks..." "He comes and asks:" ""Doctor, what's wrong with me?" "You know." "Doctor, what's wrong with me?"" "But the doctor has no more idea than the patient." "That's the great thing." "Both are poor..." "poor in knowledge." "And even if the doctor knows, or thinks he knows, he must give up what he knows so he can be receptive to something which is completely new." "I really liked your oddly-shaped potatoes." "We'd never seen heart-shaped potatoes like that." "It's a rather symbolic shape." " Better than the real thing!" " Pretty, isn't it?" " Better than the real thing!" " Pretty, isn't it?" "This photo was taken in my kitchen in front of a painting found in a junk store." "straight TO THE HEART" "That photo appeared in Aden, because I was interviewed by Philippe Piazzo." "I was here, and something strange happened." "Philippe was talking to me about the Gleaners." "He said he was deeply moved by the shots in which I showed my hands and hair." "Then, he said," ""l was also moved, because it reminded me of Jacquot de Nantes and of the shots you filmed of Jacques Demy, of his arms and hands, and one which went from his hair to his eye."" "When he said that, I started crying." "I wasn't particularly crying for Jacques or something, but... I realized I'd done it unwittingly." "I realized something extraordinary:" "without ever thinking about it, I redid on myself..." "I refilmed on myself... what I had filmed of Jacques Demy." "But as the context was different:" "what I did concerned ageing. I wanted to be as honest as the Gleaners had been..." "So, I never saw the similarity." "But when he said that, I saw there was... a sort of thread linking the two films, between Jacques' hands, his skin damaged by disease and mine damaged by old age." "His white hair, my white hair." "I said to my daughter and the others:" ""Piazzo said it reminded him of Jacquot de Nantes, of the close-ups of Jacques."" "Rosalie said: "Yes, of course, everyone saw that."" "Everyone except me." "I'm not trying to sound stupid or naive, but... it struck me how we work... how we work without knowing, without..." "We don't work on the meaning or with continuity... people say to me:" ""Your work is very consistent"." "They say what they like, of course." "I realize... that I work as best I can." "Sometimes, 6 or 1 2 months later, someone says something..." "And that really amazed me." "I was very grateful to Piazzo for telling me." "I was amazed no one had told me before and even more amazed to have done it." "May 1st 2000:" "I filmed some lily of the valley" "May 1st 2000:" "I filmed some lily of the valley for The Gleaners' last shot and quickly put it in the film before Cannes." "And now I end this film with more lily of the valley for May Day." "And what a May Day!" "A march against the Front National." "Against the far right of Le Pen." "Down with the Front Nationall" "F for Fascist and N for Nazi" "We're all children of immigrants" "First, second, third generation" "We're all children of immigrants" "Erase the shame" " Vote" "LE PEN OUT!" "Thanks"