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Vagabond - Criterion Collection (1986)

Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane Director: Agnès Varda Rating: R (Restricted) Format: DVD
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)


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  • Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Francis Balchère, Jean-Louis Perletti, Urbain Causse
  • Directors: Agnès Varda
  • Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Criterion
  • DVD Release Date: May 16, 2000
  • Run Time: 105 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 0780023226
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #75,710 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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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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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars VAGABOND, September 22, 2003
By "valeska_" (The Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews
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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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars TO LIVE AND DIE IN FRANCE, October 23, 2000
After CLEO FROM 5 TO 7, Criterion released a few weeks ago another movie of french director Agnès Varda : VAGABOND. The original title of the movie is SANS TOIT NI LOI which could have been translated WITHOUT ROOF NOR LAW. I don't know whether this last translation makes any sense in english but it sure does in french emphasizing the rebellious side of Sandrine Bonnaire's character.

Still at the beginning of her career, Sandrine Bonnaire gives here a performance that deserves the utmost respect. Surrounded by semi professionals or amateurs, she brings Mona to life and death in a stellar performance. Of course, first you have to accept Agnès Varda's style, a mixture of (false) documentary and fiction.

VAGABOND is the anti-romantic movie by essence. The glorious nature so often depicted by writers and the postcards sent by your lucky friends is replaced by an hostile environment made of mud or frozen water. Sandrine Bonnaire is not wandering through France for fun, she's not heading to the southern part of France in a symbolic search for hope. She just wants to be free and alone. She's the last rebel.

No extra-features with this Criterion release except for english subtitles. Great sound and images which will plunge you deep into the sadness of a cold winter.

A - no hope - DVD.

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An isolating, disturbing and terribly moving tale, July 7, 1999
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This review is from: Vagabond [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This movie is one of the best I have ever seen. It poses many questions to the viewerlike, "What is total freedom?" and "Is everyone isolated from one another?". Sandrine Bonnaire captures the Vagabond with a strange cool and shows the viewer a face that truly anyone can become. The story is about a Vagabond, who to many has no name, but leaves a massive impression. We first see her dead and frozen, nothing but a faceless figure that means nothing to anyone. Then as we begin to get glimpses into her life from people she met along the way we begin to give her a face and the face we give her is all too clear. It is the face of an isolated, scared, lonely person who is lost and unable to help herself. As a viwer we are unable to have a rockhard understanding of whether or not we care for the Vagabond. We see her pain so clearly that perhaps we are understanding, yet we also see a selfish person who thinks only of herself. When the film ends we are left wondering how many vagabonds we have come across and whether or not we are one ourselves.
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3.0 out of 5 stars What Works...And What Doesn't
I didn't like this movie.

I never really found anything out about the girl in it. And what I did find out...I never really liked her. Read more
Published 3 months ago by The JuRK

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary film
About as unadorned & no frills a film as you will ever see. Kind of the anti-Amelie. Easy to see why some of the spoiled "film students" on this site panned it. Read more
Published 6 months ago by inframan

3.0 out of 5 stars Vagabond
This movie, in the tradition of other French films, is pointless and mundane. The characters lack any development and the storyline suffers from basic stupidity. Read more
Published 6 months ago by J. Lindner

4.0 out of 5 stars captivating performance by Sandrine Bonnaire
Perhaps undefinable charisma might best describe Bonnaire in this film. Varda directs with a sure hand. Read more
Published on June 23, 2007 by Kirk Alex

4.0 out of 5 stars Without Roof or Rule
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Do you want to know how Absolute Freedom looks like? Read more
Published on September 13, 2006 by Galina

4.0 out of 5 stars Anti-romantic heroine in rural France
This is a very well made film, with some excellent camera work. Its script also manages to avoid the "noble beggar" cliche by showing Mona not as a romantic homeless rebel but a... Read more
Published on August 25, 2006 by Old Grumbler

1.0 out of 5 stars Cliche, French style
The drifter, the young one nobody understands, the free spirit, the girl you should never fall in love with...

Puh-lease! Read more

Published on June 28, 2004 by Rocco Dormarunno

3.0 out of 5 stars a very interesting film.
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. Read more

Published on May 25, 2004 by Ted

4.0 out of 5 stars Freedoms just another word for nothing left to loose
Sandrine Bonnaire is flawless in her performance. This movie will haunt you whenever you have the urge to chuck it all and hit the road.
Published on June 12, 2003 by Yumi

4.0 out of 5 stars France in a muted light
In Agnes Varda's "Vagabond", a young girl (Mona) drifts from place to place throughout the countryside and towns of France. Read more
Published on September 27, 2002 by David Grim

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