Sans toit ni loi (1985)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Agnès Varda

Writer:

Agnès Varda (writer)

Release Date:

16 toukokuu 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She's ill kempt, a vagabond...

Plot Keywords:

Vagabond | Smoking | Champagne | Vagrant | Nudity

Awards:

8 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Sandrine Bonnaire	...	Mona Bergeron, sans toit ni loi
Setti Ramdane	...	le marocaine qui la trouve
Francis Balchère	...	un gendarme
Jean-Louis Perletti	...	un autre
Urbain Causse	...	un paysan interrogé
Christophe Alcazar	...	un autre, brûleyrr de fossé
Dominique Durand	...	le premier motard
Joël Fosse	...	l'autre, Paulo, amant de Yolande
Patrick Schmit	...	le camionneur
Daniel Bos	...	Le démolisseur
Katy Champaud	...	le jeune fille à la pompe
Raymond Roulle	...	le vieux aux allumettes
Henri Fridlani	...	le fossoyeur
Patrick Sokol	...	le jaune homme au sandwich
Pierre Imbert	...	le garagiste

Also Known As:

Vagabond (USA)
Without Roof or Rule (literal English title)
Kuin taivaan lintu (Finland) [fi]

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

France | UK

Language:

Arabic | French | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | West Germany:12

Company:

Channel Four Films

Movie Connections:

References Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962)

Soundtrack:

Sur la mer toujours recommencée calmée

Still the Vagabond!

I can't believe that I saw this film ten years ago in Dr. Flitterman-Lewis' class on Women and Film at Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was probably one of the most memorable films from that class. I thought Sandrine Bonnaire did an absolute brilliant job as playing Mona. I felt so sorry for her. She was never really home anywhere and nothing ever worked out for her. Maybe she just didn't fit in anywhere and longed for something better but she was getting worse. She lived anywhere in the fields, etc. She needed the kindness of strangers who never forgot her as they told her friends. She needed a bath to be washed away from the dirt of her existence. She never belonged anywhere. We didn't know her parents or where she came from. She just came and left without answering questions.