Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Vagabond (1985)


IMDb summary: A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.
Directed by Agnès Varda. Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Yolande Moreau, Macha Méril, and Stéphane Freiss.

Of the three Agnes Varda films I've seen so far, this is probably the one that is likely to have the strongest impact on me long-term. Mona is such an incredible character, distant and aimless and seemingly finding her own existence too much work. And as she drifts from situation to situation, seeing her interact with other people around her just elicits such a strong sense of empathetic sadness for her. It's a dark, tragic tale, but it's beautifully crafted, and I think it's one I'm going to be think about for a long time.

How it entered my Flickchart:
Vagabond > Silent Hill
Vagabond > Little Children
Vagabond < E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Vagabond > Bruce Almighty
Vagabond < Enchanted
Vagabond > Les Miserables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary

And now Flickchart is just getting stuck and won't let me rank further than this, but that lands it at #449, or 84%, which seems about right, so we'll let that stay.

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