Today we watched the 1985 Agnes Varda film, Sans Toit Ni Loi meaning without "roof or law". The title is a pun the common French idiom, "Sans foi ni loi", meaning without faith or law. However, the film has never been released in English under the title, without or roof or law and was instead named The Vagabond.
The film was written and directed by acclaimed director Agnes Varda. Varda is well known for her films of documentary realism, social commentary and feminist issues. Her early films have been acknolwledged as a precursor to the French New Wave and she was part of the influential Rive Gauche movement. The film stars Sandrine Bonnaire who plays Mona, a lonely vagbond who wonders the French countryside one winter. The films starts with Mona lying frozen to death in a ditch. The rest of the film depicts Mona's life in the weeks leading up to her death and documentary style interviews with people who met her during that period.
The film is good at depicting the loneliness and isolation of Mona's lifestyle. The film directly exmaines the sacrifices of having "complete freedom". The film feels very realistic in the way it is filmed, the script and the naturalsitic performances of the actors. Like a lot of Varda's other work this film seems to be more of a social study of a humanity, in this case examining a marginalised section of society which is most often ignored.
The film was written and directed by acclaimed director Agnes Varda. Varda is well known for her films of documentary realism, social commentary and feminist issues. Her early films have been acknolwledged as a precursor to the French New Wave and she was part of the influential Rive Gauche movement. The film stars Sandrine Bonnaire who plays Mona, a lonely vagbond who wonders the French countryside one winter. The films starts with Mona lying frozen to death in a ditch. The rest of the film depicts Mona's life in the weeks leading up to her death and documentary style interviews with people who met her during that period.
The film is good at depicting the loneliness and isolation of Mona's lifestyle. The film directly exmaines the sacrifices of having "complete freedom". The film feels very realistic in the way it is filmed, the script and the naturalsitic performances of the actors. Like a lot of Varda's other work this film seems to be more of a social study of a humanity, in this case examining a marginalised section of society which is most often ignored.
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