Miami Beach Cinematheque. October 22nd, 2009. 8:30 p.m.
The 1985 French film Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi), directed by Agnès Varda and featuring Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stephane Freiss and Yolande Moreau, will be screened at the Miami Beach Cinematheque on October 22nd, 2009 at 8:30 p.m.
The film begins with the contorted body of the woman, covered in frost. From this image, an unseen and unheard interviewer puts the camera on the last men to see her and the ones who found her. The action then goes backwards, to see the woman, Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire) walking along the roadside, hiding from cops and trying to get a ride.
Along her journey she meets and takes up with other vagabonds such as herself as well as a Tunisian vineyard worker, a family of goat farmers, a professor researching trees, and a maid who envies what she perceives to be a beautiful and passionate lifestyle. Mona explains to one of her temporary companions that at one time she had an office job and did very well for herself, but she became unsettled with the way she was living – choosing instead to wander the country free from any responsibility, picking up what she could to survive as she goes. Throughout the film, Mona’s condition seems to become progressively worse until she finally falls where we first saw her, frozen and entrenched in her misery in a ditch.
Miami Beach Cinematheque
512 Española Way
Miami Beach, FL 33139
305.673.4567
www.mbcinema.com
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