For Earth Month (April), the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is offering a film series loosely based on farming and food production. All films are free and open to the public.

For more information, Prof. Colleen Culleton at culleton@buffalo.edu

The second film in this series will be Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I) (Dir. Agnès Varda, 2000). French with English subtitles.

An 1867 painting by Jean-Francois Millet inspired septuagenarian documentarian Agnes Varda to cross the French countryside to videotape people who scavenge. Taking everything from surplus in the fields, to rubbish in trashcans, to oysters washed up after a storm, the “gleaners” range from those sadly in need to those hoping to recreate the community activity of centuries past, and still others who use whatever they find to cobble together a rough art. Highlighted by Varda’s amusing narration.

(film synopsis from Google)

This film series is sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Humanities Institute, Department of Media Study.