Vagabond

(1985)

★ 7.4 IMDb · 371 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1985

Runtime: 106 мин

Country: France

Director: Agnès Varda

Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Маша Мериль, Иоланда Моро, Stéphane Freiss, Setti Ramdane, Yahiaoui Assouna, Marthe Jarnias, Francis Balchère, Jean-Louis Perletti, Urbain Causse

Plot

Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.

In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She's unkempt, a vagabond. Through flashbacks and brief interviews, we trace her final weeks as she camps alone or falls in with various men and women, many of whom project their needs onto her or try to give her life direction. She squats in an old house smoking hash with a man, falls for a Tunisian laborer and works beside him pruning grape vines, stays with a couple shepherding goats, meets an agronomist trying to save plane trees, gets tipsy with an old woman, and has an offer to appear in porn films.