Directed by Agnès Varda • 1985 • France
Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss
Sandrine Bonnaire won the Best Actress César for her portrayal of the defiant young drifter Mona, found frozen to death in a ditch at the beginning of VAGABOND. Agnès Varda pieces together Mona’s story through flashbacks told by those who encountered her (played by a largely nonprofessional cast), producing a splintered portrait of an enigmatic woman. With its sparse, poetic imagery, VAGABOND (SANS TOIT NI LOI) is a stunner, and won Varda the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1985 • France
Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss
Sandrine Bonnaire won the Best Actress César for her portrayal of the defiant young drifter Mona, found frozen to death in a ditch at the beginning of VAGABOND. Agnès Varda pieces together Mona’s sto...
Shot eighteen years after the release of VAGABOND, this 2003 documentary, directed and narrated by Agnès Varda, features actors from the film and recounts the events that inspired Varda to make it.
In 2003, director Agnès Varda paid a visit to Marthe Jarnias, who played Aunt Lydie in VAGABOND, to reminisce about her work on the film.
In this conversation from 2003, director Agnès Varda and composer Joanna Bruzdowicz discuss the music they created for VAGABOND, along with the dolly shots that it accompanies throughout the film.
This short excerpt from a January 7, 1986, interview on the France Culture radio show “La nuit sur un plateau,” hosted by Alain Veinstein, features director Agnès Varda and fiction writer Nathalie Sarraute, whose writings inspired VAGABOND and to whom Varda dedicated the film.
