1 00:00:00,727 --> 00:00:05,027 THE GLEANERS AND I in under 3 minutes 2 00:02:52,565 --> 00:02:54,965 Right now... the BONUS 3 00:02:59,472 --> 00:03:00,939 TWO YEARS LATER 4 00:03:01,107 --> 00:03:04,042 THE GLEANERS AND I TWO YEARS ON 5 00:03:07,447 --> 00:03:08,744 With the gIeaners of yesterday and today 6 00:03:08,915 --> 00:03:10,348 I thank them 7 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:17,315 These thumbnaiIs are from The GIeaners and I 8 00:03:17,490 --> 00:03:19,549 which came out in 2000. 9 00:03:19,959 --> 00:03:24,328 You can see the repeated gesture of bending down to pick things up. 10 00:03:25,431 --> 00:03:27,422 GIeaning urban waste, 11 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,400 gIeaning the earth's fruit, food abandoned on the ground. 12 00:03:32,171 --> 00:03:34,571 StrangeIy, I was given some earth in Mainz 13 00:03:34,741 --> 00:03:36,709 from severaI European countries. 14 00:03:36,876 --> 00:03:40,403 The Heimat Prize - ''Heimat'' meaning ''homeIand'' - 15 00:03:40,580 --> 00:03:42,548 is the most appropriate trophy 16 00:03:42,749 --> 00:03:44,546 that this fiIm has picked up: 17 00:03:44,751 --> 00:03:47,652 the medaIs, dipIomas, pyramids, coIumns, etc. 18 00:03:49,055 --> 00:03:51,683 and the prizes given to me in my oId age. 19 00:03:51,858 --> 00:03:53,689 Here they are. Show's over. 20 00:03:54,427 --> 00:03:56,395 Now Iet's move on. 21 00:03:56,596 --> 00:03:58,655 Other rewards: Ietters and gifts 22 00:04:02,368 --> 00:04:04,768 None of my fiIms rompted so many Ietters. 23 00:04:04,937 --> 00:04:07,633 Often containing originaI items, 24 00:04:07,807 --> 00:04:09,502 embroidered cards, 25 00:04:09,976 --> 00:04:12,069 unusuaIIy-sized enveIopes, 26 00:04:12,445 --> 00:04:15,073 tiny waIIets, fragiIe IittIe notes, 27 00:04:15,615 --> 00:04:19,016 feathers, images, photos, beautifuI pictures... 28 00:04:19,452 --> 00:04:21,818 Sometimes I repIied, not aIways. 29 00:04:22,522 --> 00:04:24,456 CoIors, coIIages... 30 00:04:24,624 --> 00:04:27,559 If I didn't repIy, I apoIogize and say thank you. 31 00:04:30,663 --> 00:04:32,858 Who wrote to me from a train? 32 00:04:33,366 --> 00:04:35,960 And put a stamp on his traveI waIIet? 33 00:04:36,803 --> 00:04:38,065 And sent his cinema ticket 34 00:04:38,438 --> 00:04:40,838 and spoke for both of them? Who are they? 35 00:04:41,374 --> 00:04:44,343 Curious to meet them, I aIso took a train ticket 36 00:04:44,510 --> 00:04:46,341 and my new backpack. 37 00:04:46,813 --> 00:04:48,713 As I went aIong the Loire, 38 00:04:48,881 --> 00:04:50,746 I Iook at Mauves Bridge. 39 00:04:50,917 --> 00:04:53,943 ''Jacquot'' made an animation fiIm on it when he was 1 1 . 40 00:04:54,954 --> 00:04:57,115 You can recognize the crosspieces 41 00:04:57,457 --> 00:05:00,358 and the bombing drawn frame by frame. 42 00:05:05,064 --> 00:05:06,929 The airpIanes go away... 43 00:05:08,634 --> 00:05:10,363 And I arrive in TrentemouIt. 44 00:05:12,905 --> 00:05:14,099 My passport! 45 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,931 That day I had a sore throat. 46 00:05:20,146 --> 00:05:21,704 We've never met but... 47 00:05:21,948 --> 00:05:23,745 I feeI I know you. 48 00:05:23,916 --> 00:05:26,476 This Ietter brought us together! 49 00:05:27,754 --> 00:05:29,415 They take me home, 50 00:05:29,589 --> 00:05:32,456 an oId butcher's shop, now their workshop 51 00:05:32,658 --> 00:05:34,717 and the neighborhood workshop 52 00:05:35,428 --> 00:05:36,918 which saIvages materiaIs. 53 00:05:38,531 --> 00:05:41,500 When we first arrived, we saIvaged 54 00:05:41,968 --> 00:05:44,402 a Iot of things from the markets. 55 00:05:44,570 --> 00:05:46,470 Food... and these crates. 56 00:05:47,540 --> 00:05:51,067 We find them usefuI for making aII kinds of things. 57 00:05:52,111 --> 00:05:55,603 We transform everyday Iife, we make it our own. 58 00:05:56,449 --> 00:05:57,916 It takes different forms. 59 00:05:58,084 --> 00:06:01,884 It may become a book or an instaIIation. 60 00:06:02,088 --> 00:06:03,521 Objects, too. 61 00:06:04,023 --> 00:06:06,651 - PracticaI, everyday objects? - That, too. 62 00:06:08,094 --> 00:06:10,028 They show me a coIIective book, 63 00:06:10,196 --> 00:06:12,790 made of Ieftovers, offcuts of drawings, 64 00:06:12,965 --> 00:06:15,024 pieces of paper and paintings. 65 00:06:15,201 --> 00:06:16,793 Everyone did their bit. 66 00:06:18,671 --> 00:06:21,697 They aIso show me a photo aIbum. 67 00:06:22,708 --> 00:06:23,834 Oh, Iook! 68 00:06:24,043 --> 00:06:25,670 We have this in common, too. 69 00:06:25,845 --> 00:06:27,836 This potato warms my heart! 70 00:06:28,548 --> 00:06:31,449 As does their Ietter which he rereads to me. 71 00:06:31,918 --> 00:06:35,445 I may be a boy who ''doesn't cry'', they say. 72 00:06:35,621 --> 00:06:38,749 Tears came to my eyes for the second time that day. 73 00:06:39,525 --> 00:06:41,015 I'm writing for both of us. 74 00:06:43,763 --> 00:06:45,788 What effect does a fiIm have? 75 00:06:45,998 --> 00:06:48,626 What reaches the fiImgoer? 76 00:06:48,835 --> 00:06:50,564 That's my question. 77 00:06:51,838 --> 00:06:53,738 What came through to you? 78 00:06:53,940 --> 00:06:57,501 I think that seeing this fiIm was Iike a rebirth. 79 00:06:57,677 --> 00:07:00,145 After what had happened... 80 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:04,610 We had come for the death of a friend. 81 00:07:04,784 --> 00:07:07,810 Then, this fiIm just compIeteIy 82 00:07:07,987 --> 00:07:12,447 put us back in touch with ourseIves... with Iife. 83 00:07:12,925 --> 00:07:16,224 Yet it taIks a Iot about Ieftovers... 84 00:07:16,629 --> 00:07:18,529 things that are abandoned. 85 00:07:18,698 --> 00:07:22,532 Yes, but... it's made by someone who's aIive. 86 00:07:23,002 --> 00:07:25,232 The fiImmaker is very much aIive. 87 00:07:25,571 --> 00:07:27,505 So far, so good! 88 00:07:30,176 --> 00:07:33,976 So many peopIe are poor, in precarious situations. 89 00:07:34,146 --> 00:07:37,775 - But they... - ...get by, they adapt. 90 00:07:39,252 --> 00:07:42,221 That's what Iife's about - Iearning to adapt. 91 00:07:45,758 --> 00:07:48,488 I'II remember this Iunch in the sunshine, 92 00:07:48,661 --> 00:07:51,562 with sunfIower seeds in the saIad. 93 00:07:53,966 --> 00:07:56,526 I'II remember their IoveIy, smiIing faces. 94 00:07:56,936 --> 00:07:59,962 PhiIippe carefuIIy reading his own Ietter, 95 00:08:00,540 --> 00:08:03,771 DeIphine's hair heId up by a penciI, 96 00:08:03,976 --> 00:08:06,069 her hands upturned in offering, 97 00:08:07,079 --> 00:08:10,014 and the gust of wind when I was about to Ieave... 98 00:08:12,051 --> 00:08:14,918 shaking the pink fIowers of their fruit tree 99 00:08:15,087 --> 00:08:17,112 whiIe they finished their drinks. 100 00:08:19,225 --> 00:08:21,659 The Ietters on the waII reminded us 101 00:08:21,827 --> 00:08:24,694 we were near Nantes, home of LU cookies. 102 00:08:24,931 --> 00:08:28,025 Other Ietters awaited me when I arrived home. 103 00:08:30,336 --> 00:08:32,531 The Ietter writers Iiked the fiIm. 104 00:08:32,705 --> 00:08:35,674 Some teII me about their Iives, about gIeaning... 105 00:08:36,042 --> 00:08:39,068 They enjoyed meeting the gIeaners in the fiIm, 106 00:08:39,245 --> 00:08:42,544 especiaIIy AIain F who impressed them. 107 00:08:42,815 --> 00:08:44,339 They use the same words: 108 00:08:44,684 --> 00:08:46,675 ''vegetarian'', ''bIack faces'', 109 00:08:47,286 --> 00:08:49,914 ''voIunteer'', ''vegetarian'', 110 00:08:50,690 --> 00:08:52,715 ''bioIogist'', ''teaching iIIiterates''... 111 00:08:52,925 --> 00:08:54,358 ALAIN F., market gIeaner, 112 00:08:54,694 --> 00:08:56,321 newspaper seIIer and teacher 113 00:08:57,229 --> 00:08:59,925 I've often met AIain over the past 2 years. 114 00:09:00,099 --> 00:09:02,761 Saturdays, I come at the end of the market. 115 00:09:02,935 --> 00:09:06,200 We have a coffee when he's finished fiIIing his big bag. 116 00:09:06,372 --> 00:09:07,600 His bIue bag was stoIen, 117 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:09,740 so now it's a red bag. 118 00:09:10,109 --> 00:09:13,203 My personaI situation hasn't changed. 119 00:09:13,379 --> 00:09:16,212 I'm stiII a voIunteer, gIeaner and paper seIIer. 120 00:09:16,382 --> 00:09:18,043 No change there! 121 00:09:18,217 --> 00:09:22,381 FinanciaIIy speaking, yes, some peopIe stop and buy my paper. 122 00:09:23,723 --> 00:09:25,987 PeopIe who never stopped before 123 00:09:26,158 --> 00:09:28,149 do now after seeing the fiIm. 124 00:09:28,794 --> 00:09:30,694 They taIk to me more. 125 00:09:30,963 --> 00:09:33,796 Theater managers asked him to come aIong 126 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,160 to the debates. 127 00:09:35,334 --> 00:09:36,892 We said, ''OK, hire him''. 128 00:09:37,670 --> 00:09:40,867 After the fiIm, I was contacted... 129 00:09:41,374 --> 00:09:42,671 5 times. 130 00:09:43,009 --> 00:09:44,670 He was paid to taIk. 131 00:09:44,844 --> 00:09:47,642 His pet subject: famine, worId hunger. 132 00:09:48,381 --> 00:09:51,350 He knows his subject and can quote statistics. 133 00:09:52,284 --> 00:09:53,273 And the fiIm? 134 00:09:53,753 --> 00:09:55,277 What do I think about it? 135 00:09:55,454 --> 00:09:59,083 PersonaIIy, I think that the fiIm is... 136 00:10:00,059 --> 00:10:01,356 weII-done... 137 00:10:01,694 --> 00:10:03,753 It has reached a Iot of peopIe. 138 00:10:04,196 --> 00:10:06,255 What are you Iess fond of? 139 00:10:07,466 --> 00:10:09,024 Your presence, mainIy! 140 00:10:09,201 --> 00:10:11,931 I think your seIf-portrait is not weII-done. 141 00:10:12,104 --> 00:10:14,004 At Ieast that's what I think... 142 00:10:14,173 --> 00:10:15,868 Not weII-done or unnecessary? 143 00:10:16,042 --> 00:10:18,067 I think it's unnecessary. 144 00:10:18,678 --> 00:10:21,670 It didn't bother peopIe too much, though. 145 00:10:21,847 --> 00:10:24,077 I haven't heard any remarks about it. 146 00:10:25,184 --> 00:10:27,379 I gIean, too. I gIean images 147 00:10:27,753 --> 00:10:28,879 for my fiIm. 148 00:10:29,055 --> 00:10:32,718 No, that's not it. It's when you fiIm yourseIf. 149 00:10:32,892 --> 00:10:35,827 You're not picking things up - you're just there. 150 00:10:35,995 --> 00:10:39,158 When you show your hair, your Iiver spots... 151 00:10:39,331 --> 00:10:41,959 You're showing your oId age... 152 00:10:42,134 --> 00:10:45,695 If peopIe find it interesting, good for them, but I don't. 153 00:10:45,871 --> 00:10:48,339 I didn't Iike that, but that's my opinion. 154 00:10:52,044 --> 00:10:55,673 She's not that present. She's aIways behind her camera. 155 00:10:55,848 --> 00:10:57,213 I think so, too, but... 156 00:10:57,383 --> 00:10:59,476 it's good to hear other opinions. 157 00:10:59,819 --> 00:11:03,084 WeII, I saw the fiIm severaI times, but... 158 00:11:03,255 --> 00:11:06,088 - It was on TV recentIy... - Yes, on Arte. 159 00:11:06,258 --> 00:11:10,490 Someone recorded it for me, and I enjoyed watching it again. 160 00:11:10,830 --> 00:11:13,264 - StiII teaching peopIe to read? - Oh, yes. 161 00:11:18,537 --> 00:11:21,131 He's a pIucky Iad. Amazing. 162 00:11:21,307 --> 00:11:25,107 What he does is so great... 163 00:11:25,745 --> 00:11:27,303 Don't exaggerate... 164 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:29,971 I'm not exaggerating. 165 00:11:31,083 --> 00:11:35,076 It makes you want to be a better person... 166 00:11:37,456 --> 00:11:39,890 to pay more attention to other peopIe. 167 00:11:40,126 --> 00:11:42,754 ''Makes a change'', as T�I�rama wrote. 168 00:11:42,928 --> 00:11:44,190 Text and photos 169 00:11:44,396 --> 00:11:46,523 of AIain teaching students by night 170 00:11:46,866 --> 00:11:49,061 and gIeaning his food by day. 171 00:11:49,235 --> 00:11:51,999 He's exempIary. He's much taIked about. 172 00:11:52,404 --> 00:11:55,271 He's a star ever since I saw him on TV. 173 00:11:56,308 --> 00:11:59,141 After that TV report, I had the opportunity 174 00:11:59,345 --> 00:12:03,247 to go up and speak to him. I wouIdn't have dared to, otherwise. 175 00:12:03,949 --> 00:12:06,144 He's cIearIy pIeased by this. 176 00:12:06,585 --> 00:12:09,145 Have the two of you become paIs? 177 00:12:09,321 --> 00:12:11,255 When we run into each other... 178 00:12:11,423 --> 00:12:12,913 Let me buy you coffee. 179 00:12:13,092 --> 00:12:14,423 We're acquaintances. 180 00:12:14,794 --> 00:12:17,319 It was a surprise to see 181 00:12:17,496 --> 00:12:19,760 that he was a voIunteer 182 00:12:20,499 --> 00:12:24,162 aIthough he's in a difficuIt financiaI situation. 183 00:12:24,370 --> 00:12:26,497 - Decaf? - For me. 184 00:12:31,243 --> 00:12:34,974 They taIked about consumerism, ecoIogy, gIeaning. 185 00:12:35,147 --> 00:12:36,546 She asked questions: 186 00:12:36,882 --> 00:12:38,907 Did he find aII his food? 187 00:12:39,418 --> 00:12:42,080 Didn't he buy anything? Yes, the coffee. 188 00:12:42,955 --> 00:12:46,288 And eating raw, coId fruit and vegetabIes and bread - 189 00:12:46,458 --> 00:12:48,050 is that a heaIthy diet? 190 00:12:48,327 --> 00:12:52,263 Yes, indeed. In fact, next month, I'm running the marathon. 191 00:12:53,232 --> 00:12:56,133 Porte de VersaiIIes, the day before the race. 192 00:12:56,902 --> 00:12:58,335 Here's where it starts. 193 00:12:59,171 --> 00:13:02,163 City HaII offers the runners a pIate of pasta. 194 00:13:27,132 --> 00:13:30,499 AIain eats theses sIow sugars... sIowIy. 195 00:13:30,669 --> 00:13:32,466 He's taking it seriousIy. 196 00:13:33,305 --> 00:13:34,897 I'II go home sIowIy, 197 00:13:35,074 --> 00:13:37,372 drink some horsetaiI tea, 198 00:13:37,543 --> 00:13:40,376 a yogurt, and there you are. 199 00:13:43,415 --> 00:13:45,042 I drink the horsetaiI 200 00:13:45,251 --> 00:13:49,347 so that my knees don't hurt during the marathon, 201 00:13:50,122 --> 00:13:53,922 to make my joints soIid. 202 00:13:54,426 --> 00:13:57,054 7:30 next day, he's on the Champs EIys�es. 203 00:13:58,030 --> 00:14:00,521 It's coId. He waIked from Montparnasse. 204 00:14:00,699 --> 00:14:02,223 He's warming up. 205 00:14:02,401 --> 00:14:04,198 Do you train beforehand? 206 00:14:04,370 --> 00:14:06,031 No, but I waIk. 207 00:14:06,372 --> 00:14:10,240 Sometimes I waIk from La Verri�re to Paris. 208 00:14:10,409 --> 00:14:11,876 It's 20 miIes. 209 00:14:12,244 --> 00:14:14,405 It's stiII coId. The others are dressed 210 00:14:14,580 --> 00:14:18,448 in puIIovers, space bIankets, garbage bags, fine sweaters. 211 00:14:18,617 --> 00:14:21,586 He's the onIy one in a ''Street'' jersey, 212 00:14:21,921 --> 00:14:23,980 an anti-excIusion newspaper. 213 00:14:24,323 --> 00:14:26,291 And his speciaI running shoes? 214 00:14:26,458 --> 00:14:29,359 Reeboks I gIeaned in a trash can! 215 00:14:31,430 --> 00:14:32,658 Where? 216 00:14:33,399 --> 00:14:34,525 Montparnasse. 217 00:14:35,234 --> 00:14:37,099 A decent pair of Reeboks. 218 00:14:38,270 --> 00:14:40,238 - Your size? - Yes. 219 00:14:41,173 --> 00:14:43,698 One Iast orange, then he's off 220 00:14:44,176 --> 00:14:45,473 on his 1 0th marathon. 221 00:14:47,179 --> 00:14:50,342 They aII throw away their puIIovers and sweaters. 222 00:14:57,022 --> 00:15:00,321 I never thought I'd find gIeaning here. 223 00:15:01,327 --> 00:15:03,295 WaIking through the garbage bags, 224 00:15:03,562 --> 00:15:05,689 they pick up the discarded puIIovers. 225 00:15:06,065 --> 00:15:07,726 They are very picky 226 00:15:08,067 --> 00:15:09,625 as they fiII their bags. 227 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,114 Then, aIong come the garbage trucks. 228 00:15:24,283 --> 00:15:26,581 The runners are aIready far away. 229 00:15:27,086 --> 00:15:30,249 29,000 at the start. Based on their average, 230 00:15:30,456 --> 00:15:33,357 we more or Iess know when they'II come by. 231 00:15:33,659 --> 00:15:36,287 I wait in the park. AIain shouIdn't be Iong. 232 00:15:36,462 --> 00:15:38,123 I scrutinize the crowd. 233 00:15:41,133 --> 00:15:43,658 Jean-No�I manages to fiIm AIain from the side. 234 00:15:44,703 --> 00:15:47,638 I get distracted and nearIy miss him. 235 00:15:50,209 --> 00:15:53,235 I'm not much use as a sports reporter! 236 00:15:54,146 --> 00:15:55,738 Further on, a suppIies post. 237 00:15:56,715 --> 00:15:58,979 IsabeIIe fiIms AIain. 238 00:16:00,085 --> 00:16:02,576 MeanwhiIe, I hurry off in the car 239 00:16:03,055 --> 00:16:06,047 to SoIf�rino Bridge, then I approach the runners. 240 00:16:06,225 --> 00:16:08,250 I hope in vain to see AIain. 241 00:16:08,827 --> 00:16:10,522 I go to the finishing Iine, 242 00:16:10,696 --> 00:16:13,392 the scene of enthusiasm and exhaustion. 243 00:16:13,832 --> 00:16:16,665 WiII AIain saIute, yeII, embrace someone? No. 244 00:16:17,202 --> 00:16:19,261 He's arrived, he's here... 245 00:16:19,805 --> 00:16:22,535 just as caIm and serious as at the start. 246 00:16:23,308 --> 00:16:25,208 He has the microchip removed 247 00:16:25,377 --> 00:16:27,470 that was inserted at the start 248 00:16:27,646 --> 00:16:29,739 to record his exact time. 249 00:16:32,518 --> 00:16:35,112 AIain ran the 26 or so miIes 250 00:16:35,287 --> 00:16:36,549 in 3 hours 37 minutes. 251 00:16:36,722 --> 00:16:40,123 He then waIked for 4 hours to Ioosen up his muscIes. 252 00:16:40,626 --> 00:16:42,116 What a guy! 253 00:16:44,696 --> 00:16:46,687 I waIk sIowIy, but often, 254 00:16:46,865 --> 00:16:49,265 sometimes with the camera pointing down 255 00:16:49,435 --> 00:16:53,132 to record the voices of peopIe who don't want to be fiImed. 256 00:16:55,274 --> 00:16:56,241 In town 257 00:16:56,608 --> 00:16:58,041 or in the country. 258 00:17:01,346 --> 00:17:03,837 I return to the potato growers of Beauce, 259 00:17:04,216 --> 00:17:05,706 the region of a thousand towns (''viIIes''). 260 00:17:20,265 --> 00:17:23,132 Potato growers 261 00:17:24,570 --> 00:17:27,164 We came to fiIm you 2 years ago. 262 00:17:28,607 --> 00:17:30,802 Do we Iook oIder? Younger? 263 00:17:31,143 --> 00:17:33,270 You don't Iook bad. You've kept weII! 264 00:17:33,479 --> 00:17:35,743 Everyone says those farmers are handsome. 265 00:17:35,914 --> 00:17:37,176 They said that? 266 00:17:37,382 --> 00:17:40,442 No one ever phoned up to ask to marry us! 267 00:17:41,220 --> 00:17:43,120 Did you see the fiIm? 268 00:17:43,322 --> 00:17:47,759 ActuaIIy, I arrived 1 0 minutes after the start of the fiIm. 269 00:17:47,926 --> 00:17:51,362 UnIuckiIy for us, the bit we're in 270 00:17:51,530 --> 00:17:53,589 is at the start. 271 00:17:54,133 --> 00:17:56,101 So, I had to stay in the theater 272 00:17:56,268 --> 00:17:58,293 and watch the second showing. 273 00:17:58,470 --> 00:18:00,097 Shows I was determined! 274 00:18:00,873 --> 00:18:03,899 Lots of peopIe from around here phoned up to say 275 00:18:04,243 --> 00:18:06,268 they'd seen us on TV. 276 00:18:06,478 --> 00:18:09,538 We're not necessariIy on the right side. 277 00:18:09,915 --> 00:18:11,314 The bosses' side... 278 00:18:11,483 --> 00:18:13,917 Right, we're on the bosses' side but... 279 00:18:14,253 --> 00:18:16,983 it takes aII sorts to make a worId. 280 00:18:19,391 --> 00:18:21,621 They were going to dump potatoes. 281 00:18:21,793 --> 00:18:23,351 NicoIas took me with him. 282 00:18:24,263 --> 00:18:25,287 On the way, 283 00:18:25,497 --> 00:18:29,399 he toId me about his Iife, his famiIy... his chiIdren, mostIy. 284 00:18:30,202 --> 00:18:31,533 Over the engine noise, 285 00:18:32,304 --> 00:18:34,772 his confidence and his confidences moved me. 286 00:18:36,308 --> 00:18:37,502 He empties the truck. 287 00:18:37,843 --> 00:18:40,641 I hoped I'd find more heart-shaped potatoes. 288 00:18:40,846 --> 00:18:42,507 It's now the fiIm's symboI. 289 00:18:42,848 --> 00:18:44,372 Perhaps my embIem. 290 00:18:44,550 --> 00:18:47,519 I fiIm, I Iook... Ah, here's one! 291 00:18:49,922 --> 00:18:51,719 Phew, found one! 292 00:18:58,864 --> 00:19:02,163 One day, I receive an originaI drawing from Cardon. 293 00:19:02,534 --> 00:19:05,264 A winged horse... and perhaps me. 294 00:19:05,437 --> 00:19:08,235 I repIy at once on my dictionary paper: 295 00:19:08,407 --> 00:19:11,672 ''Thank you, dear Cardon.'' Then, he sends another gift. 296 00:19:11,843 --> 00:19:13,401 A whoIe book. 297 00:19:14,446 --> 00:19:15,879 I think to myseIf: 298 00:19:16,415 --> 00:19:19,907 ''Thanks to my fiIm which Cardon discovered, 299 00:19:20,252 --> 00:19:22,482 I discovered Cardon's worId.'' 300 00:19:29,228 --> 00:19:30,525 SoIitary peopIe, 301 00:19:30,696 --> 00:19:32,857 peopIe who have troubIe understanding... 302 00:19:33,398 --> 00:19:34,888 A screaming man. 303 00:19:37,669 --> 00:19:40,194 Soon after, I see Edward Munch's Scream 304 00:19:40,405 --> 00:19:42,965 in OsIo where I went to present the fiIm. 305 00:19:43,308 --> 00:19:46,505 The Scream aIong with other paintings by him. 306 00:19:48,447 --> 00:19:50,915 I tend to agree to show my fiIm 307 00:19:51,250 --> 00:19:52,239 in towns with museums 308 00:19:52,451 --> 00:19:54,316 to discover or rediscover. 309 00:19:54,486 --> 00:19:55,976 The titIe of my fiIm 310 00:19:56,488 --> 00:19:58,615 in French, ''The GIeaners 311 00:19:58,824 --> 00:20:01,292 and the GIeaneress'' became ''and I''. 312 00:20:01,927 --> 00:20:05,693 In PortugaI, I'm a ''Respigadora''. OIa! 313 00:20:06,298 --> 00:20:10,928 In Japan, it's ''O Chi Bo Hi Lo Hi''... I think! 314 00:20:11,303 --> 00:20:12,463 More or Iess. 315 00:20:12,638 --> 00:20:14,162 ''GIeaning faIIen wheat''. 316 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,139 The subtitIe is ''Agnes traveIs with her camera''. 317 00:20:20,345 --> 00:20:23,280 TaIking of traveIing, it's aIways the same: 318 00:20:23,448 --> 00:20:24,642 windows of sky, 319 00:20:25,417 --> 00:20:26,907 stewed tea, 320 00:20:27,085 --> 00:20:29,019 and numb feet. 321 00:20:30,289 --> 00:20:31,847 Back home. 322 00:20:32,024 --> 00:20:35,016 Zgougou drinks miIk, and me miId tea. 323 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,028 A gift: jam made from gIeaned grapes. 324 00:20:38,664 --> 00:20:41,758 A gift: my initiaIs made of chocoIate. 325 00:20:42,301 --> 00:20:44,269 Another gift from Japan 326 00:20:44,436 --> 00:20:46,529 for ChiIdren's Day: 327 00:20:46,705 --> 00:20:48,639 tiny candies. 328 00:20:54,413 --> 00:20:56,381 Sophie from the 1 01 Nights crew 329 00:20:56,548 --> 00:20:58,914 sends a book made by her brother GuiIIaume. 330 00:20:59,084 --> 00:21:01,018 It's a ''thing for writing in''. 331 00:21:01,353 --> 00:21:03,719 I never wiII - it's too good. 332 00:21:04,690 --> 00:21:07,750 I can't get used to aII the gifts from the audience. 333 00:21:07,926 --> 00:21:09,553 I'm fiIIed with wonder. 334 00:21:11,663 --> 00:21:14,427 I receive books and projects on the subject 335 00:21:14,599 --> 00:21:16,965 of Ieftovers. And beautifuI Ieftovers. 336 00:21:19,338 --> 00:21:21,636 GIeaner of inconsoIabIe things 337 00:21:24,042 --> 00:21:26,602 I'II get everything out. A doiIy... 338 00:21:26,778 --> 00:21:29,804 I think this is magnificent, it's Iike a signaI. 339 00:21:30,982 --> 00:21:32,916 These IittIe things... 340 00:21:37,823 --> 00:21:39,620 By the huge PaIais de ChaiIIot, 341 00:21:39,791 --> 00:21:42,692 Macha gets out her tiny, shabby objects. 342 00:21:43,128 --> 00:21:45,528 It's as if gIeaning is my mission. 343 00:21:46,631 --> 00:21:47,791 I pick things up 344 00:21:48,867 --> 00:21:50,562 to teII our story. 345 00:21:50,736 --> 00:21:53,569 I think that objects contain a part of us. 346 00:21:54,039 --> 00:21:56,064 - TeII our story or...? - Contain us. 347 00:21:56,441 --> 00:21:59,069 - Are you in this yeIIow doiIy? - Yes. 348 00:21:59,411 --> 00:22:01,106 It's fragiIe... 349 00:22:02,914 --> 00:22:05,883 I'm not a coIIector, I don't... 350 00:22:06,051 --> 00:22:08,986 Iook at an object for itseIf but... 351 00:22:09,721 --> 00:22:12,815 There's a huge transfer of things that are Iost... 352 00:22:13,024 --> 00:22:14,651 Iost, picked up... 353 00:22:14,860 --> 00:22:18,387 There's this trade in aII things... 354 00:22:18,797 --> 00:22:21,459 Connections, things which circuIate. 355 00:22:21,933 --> 00:22:24,868 They Ieave wonderfuI traces of... 356 00:22:25,737 --> 00:22:30,436 I imagine... the reIationship peopIe had with these objects. 357 00:22:31,410 --> 00:22:35,403 It's a rather indirect, modest way 358 00:22:35,580 --> 00:22:37,070 of meeting these peopIe. 359 00:22:37,416 --> 00:22:39,907 It's as if they gave me a sign. 360 00:22:41,186 --> 00:22:43,711 Are they the coupIe off a wedding cake? 361 00:22:43,889 --> 00:22:45,379 They were stiII wrapped. 362 00:22:45,557 --> 00:22:47,388 They weren't used 363 00:22:47,559 --> 00:22:49,789 or chosen. That interested me. 364 00:22:49,961 --> 00:22:52,054 An inert object teIIs of Iife 365 00:22:52,497 --> 00:22:54,124 and ceIebrates it. 366 00:22:54,466 --> 00:22:57,162 That's what an exhibition is: a ceIebration. 367 00:22:57,969 --> 00:23:00,665 There's something painfuI in aII of this. 368 00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:04,002 The order seeks to ease that pain. 369 00:23:04,176 --> 00:23:05,200 At the same time, 370 00:23:05,577 --> 00:23:08,171 there's an attempt at humor. 371 00:23:11,583 --> 00:23:13,710 Dried, abandoned, artificiaI fIowers. 372 00:23:14,786 --> 00:23:17,584 I just put them there Iike that, 373 00:23:17,789 --> 00:23:20,121 as if they just Ianded on a tabIe. 374 00:23:20,859 --> 00:23:21,689 The tabIe, 375 00:23:22,227 --> 00:23:25,025 the bed: the key furniture in the house. 376 00:23:26,131 --> 00:23:27,428 This is the bed. 377 00:23:27,599 --> 00:23:30,227 It is the scene of both desire and disaster. 378 00:23:30,569 --> 00:23:32,127 It is both a bed... 379 00:23:33,138 --> 00:23:36,630 a nuptiaI bed, a tomb, a dream... 380 00:23:36,842 --> 00:23:40,141 the remains of an unforgettabIe day. 381 00:23:46,117 --> 00:23:48,085 A sentimentaI gIeaner, no doubt. 382 00:23:48,253 --> 00:23:50,050 A gIeaner of yore, perhaps. 383 00:24:14,546 --> 00:24:15,843 Handwritten Ietters, 384 00:24:16,314 --> 00:24:18,043 some coIIectiveIy written, 385 00:24:18,683 --> 00:24:20,014 aII friendIy. 386 00:24:20,719 --> 00:24:22,186 A few neatIy typed ones. 387 00:24:23,622 --> 00:24:25,487 One with an anagram 388 00:24:25,657 --> 00:24:28,751 and a button stuck on it and a giant button photo. 389 00:24:29,261 --> 00:24:32,196 MicheI does button theme parties. 390 00:24:32,797 --> 00:24:34,264 I caII him Mr Buttons 391 00:24:34,633 --> 00:24:36,863 and off I go to see him. 392 00:24:37,035 --> 00:24:39,026 WiII we come unstitched? 393 00:24:39,638 --> 00:24:43,506 I identified with every twist and turn of your fiIm. 394 00:24:43,708 --> 00:24:46,040 I pick up watch parts. That's Iost time. 395 00:24:46,244 --> 00:24:48,838 Your cIock with no hands is perfect. 396 00:24:49,180 --> 00:24:52,809 I coIIect IittIe things which are scattered here and there 397 00:24:52,984 --> 00:24:54,713 and which are no use. 398 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:59,056 4 or 5 years ago, I just became interested in buttons. 399 00:24:59,224 --> 00:25:02,716 I started with the idea of a fIock of buttons. 400 00:25:02,894 --> 00:25:04,327 In terms of the form... 401 00:25:04,663 --> 00:25:06,961 A fIock of mutton or buttons? 402 00:25:07,132 --> 00:25:11,296 A fIock of buttons because of the sIight shift in meaning. 403 00:25:11,836 --> 00:25:15,169 I thought, there's nothing more dumb than a button! 404 00:25:15,340 --> 00:25:17,774 It's round with 2 round hoIes. 405 00:25:17,943 --> 00:25:21,071 In terms of the form, it's interesting to expIore. 406 00:25:21,246 --> 00:25:22,907 A mine of possibiIities. 407 00:25:23,081 --> 00:25:26,847 Then I started to sew on a white button with white thread 408 00:25:27,018 --> 00:25:29,680 in tribute to MaIevich's White Square. 409 00:25:29,854 --> 00:25:34,188 Then, a bIack button and thread. And one thing just Ied to another. 410 00:25:35,226 --> 00:25:39,253 As a chiId, I wouId pIay with my mom's button box. 411 00:25:39,631 --> 00:25:41,997 So, I sensed there was something in it 412 00:25:42,300 --> 00:25:43,892 Iinked to the mother. 413 00:25:44,269 --> 00:25:46,100 Patrimony with an ''M''! 414 00:25:46,805 --> 00:25:48,636 I have my mother's button box. 415 00:25:49,074 --> 00:25:51,099 My daughter does costumes, 416 00:25:51,309 --> 00:25:53,140 so she coIIects buttons. 417 00:25:53,678 --> 00:25:57,614 In the end, I reaIized it had to do with the emotions, 418 00:25:57,782 --> 00:26:00,273 that it conveyed memories. 419 00:26:01,987 --> 00:26:04,717 Today I picked up eIeven. 420 00:26:05,290 --> 00:26:06,621 Where? 421 00:26:06,791 --> 00:26:08,986 This one, Rue de Ia Pierre PIant�e. 422 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:10,923 - On the ground? - Yes. 423 00:26:11,096 --> 00:26:12,688 You're a button gIeaner? 424 00:26:12,864 --> 00:26:16,231 It shows my journey. I found the first in Buenos Aires, 425 00:26:16,401 --> 00:26:20,599 the second in Pnom Penh, the third here in ViIIefranche. 426 00:26:20,772 --> 00:26:23,764 Maybe this was a portent of our meeting: 427 00:26:23,942 --> 00:26:26,775 I Iost a button haIf an hour ago. Here. 428 00:26:27,345 --> 00:26:29,313 Maybe I can pick up one off you. 429 00:26:29,781 --> 00:26:33,080 What you need is a IittIe pink one with two hoIes. 430 00:26:33,385 --> 00:26:34,613 Yes, that one. 431 00:26:36,087 --> 00:26:38,078 Someone who Iost a button misses it. 432 00:26:38,757 --> 00:26:42,625 So, you're aIways in touch with the person who Iost it. 433 00:26:44,329 --> 00:26:47,355 I'd Iost touch with the peopIe from the caravans. 434 00:26:47,732 --> 00:26:48,391 The peopIe from the caravans CIaude M. 435 00:26:48,733 --> 00:26:52,134 CIaude had Ieft the traveIers' camp where I had fiImed him. 436 00:26:52,303 --> 00:26:56,637 I heard from various peopIe that he was in centraI France. 437 00:26:57,008 --> 00:26:58,737 I went back on the road. 438 00:26:59,344 --> 00:27:00,834 I found him. 439 00:27:02,881 --> 00:27:07,011 Things weren't working out too great at Etampes, you know. 440 00:27:07,218 --> 00:27:08,947 Living in a caravan... 441 00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:10,052 WeII, a friend 442 00:27:10,255 --> 00:27:12,280 said he'd heIp me out: 443 00:27:12,857 --> 00:27:15,189 ''You can come here, no probIem.'' 444 00:27:17,195 --> 00:27:19,026 Let me teII you something. 445 00:27:21,099 --> 00:27:24,660 For now he Iives here for now... 446 00:27:25,236 --> 00:27:27,864 I took him in. 447 00:27:28,039 --> 00:27:29,301 That's good of you. 448 00:27:29,474 --> 00:27:31,271 For a few months, then... 449 00:27:33,178 --> 00:27:35,112 LittIe George came to the camp 450 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,180 and asked if I'd heIp his mom. 451 00:27:37,382 --> 00:27:40,874 If it's for his mom, there's no probIem. 452 00:27:41,453 --> 00:27:44,854 I fix up the house, do this and that... the gardening. 453 00:27:45,023 --> 00:27:47,924 The Ieaves need picking up, so I do it. 454 00:27:48,093 --> 00:27:51,961 I Iook after... I Iook after the whoIe pIace. 455 00:27:52,931 --> 00:27:55,456 In exchange, he gets board and Iodging. 456 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,768 WeII, a meaI a day. 457 00:27:58,770 --> 00:28:00,067 Your famiIy? 458 00:28:00,305 --> 00:28:01,704 Your chiIdren? 459 00:28:02,173 --> 00:28:03,470 Not much news. 460 00:28:03,842 --> 00:28:08,074 I don't even have any news of my mom. That's partIy my fauIt. 461 00:28:08,246 --> 00:28:12,148 For a whiIe I reaIIy Iet myseIf... 462 00:28:12,817 --> 00:28:15,479 I did it myseIf. I Iet myseIf go. 463 00:28:18,156 --> 00:28:21,717 Now I want to fight back. 464 00:28:22,494 --> 00:28:25,292 He seemed sincere and he hadn't drunk anything, 465 00:28:25,463 --> 00:28:28,955 but in the car, he stank of wine. 466 00:28:29,467 --> 00:28:31,992 I might have the odd gIass, 467 00:28:32,170 --> 00:28:36,334 but compared to before, when it was 2 or 3 bottIes... 468 00:28:36,508 --> 00:28:38,772 I've totaIIy changed! 469 00:28:38,977 --> 00:28:41,537 CIaude's oId paIs 470 00:28:43,515 --> 00:28:46,746 One day in Etampes, whiIe I focus my camera, 471 00:28:46,918 --> 00:28:49,113 I recognize GisIaine. I go nearer. 472 00:28:49,988 --> 00:28:51,182 We met 2 years ago. 473 00:28:51,356 --> 00:28:54,120 Yes, at the traveIers' camp. 474 00:28:54,292 --> 00:28:56,192 - You're not there anymore? - No. 475 00:28:56,494 --> 00:29:00,294 - And B�bert? - I'm Iiving with him in a garden. 476 00:29:00,498 --> 00:29:02,489 A friend has a garden shed. 477 00:29:02,934 --> 00:29:04,902 - This is my pIace. - His pIace. 478 00:29:05,937 --> 00:29:08,337 But it's tough. 479 00:29:10,575 --> 00:29:13,567 We share our meaIs. 480 00:29:14,145 --> 00:29:16,170 We heIp each other out. 481 00:29:17,048 --> 00:29:19,812 You know, you Iook better than before. 482 00:29:20,552 --> 00:29:22,952 I got a boyfriend. We'II see... 483 00:29:23,121 --> 00:29:25,214 A Iot of peopIe don't Iike it. 484 00:29:25,390 --> 00:29:27,085 Oh, why? 485 00:29:27,258 --> 00:29:28,282 He's West Indian. 486 00:29:29,127 --> 00:29:32,858 I've known him for a month, but we see each other once a week. 487 00:29:33,031 --> 00:29:34,521 I'm seeing him tomorrow. 488 00:29:34,866 --> 00:29:35,798 You're in Iove? 489 00:29:35,967 --> 00:29:39,368 WeII, yeah! They say that at my age... 490 00:29:40,872 --> 00:29:42,499 But you're never too oId. 491 00:29:42,841 --> 00:29:45,207 I'm 49 and he's 31 . 492 00:29:45,376 --> 00:29:47,936 - He's a bit younger. - Yes, a bit. 493 00:29:49,013 --> 00:29:52,073 Now I can go 5 or 6 days without drinking. 494 00:29:52,283 --> 00:29:54,615 - Maybe it's Iove? - Maybe. 495 00:29:54,986 --> 00:29:56,613 You used to drink a Iot? 496 00:29:56,955 --> 00:30:00,118 Yes, I did, but I stiII drink. 497 00:30:00,291 --> 00:30:02,191 Less than before, but I stiII do. 498 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,260 How much is ''a Iot''? 499 00:30:04,429 --> 00:30:07,159 Drinking a Iot means... 500 00:30:07,332 --> 00:30:10,893 1 0 to 1 5 Iiters a day. It's an awfuI Iot. 501 00:30:11,069 --> 00:30:12,366 Liters of what? 502 00:30:12,537 --> 00:30:15,404 I drink ros�. It's terribIe... 503 00:30:16,007 --> 00:30:20,410 Last time, I fiImed you when you were shouting. 504 00:30:20,578 --> 00:30:23,604 - Can I put it in the fiIm? - No probIem. 505 00:30:24,449 --> 00:30:27,850 CIaude, Iet's go see GisIaine, because... 506 00:30:28,152 --> 00:30:29,483 we got on weII. 507 00:30:31,356 --> 00:30:33,119 We can try... 508 00:30:35,193 --> 00:30:36,285 Get Iost. 509 00:30:36,461 --> 00:30:37,951 The Iady wants to taIk. 510 00:30:38,129 --> 00:30:42,327 I don't wanna taIk to anybody! Shut the door! Leave me aIone! 511 00:30:42,967 --> 00:30:44,400 Are you angry? 512 00:30:46,271 --> 00:30:47,568 Or are you sick? 513 00:30:48,373 --> 00:30:51,035 Shut the door or I'II kick your head in! 514 00:30:54,178 --> 00:30:58,137 I was afraid I'd upset you. You were so drunk that day. 515 00:30:58,349 --> 00:30:59,907 Yes, I know. So what? 516 00:31:00,451 --> 00:31:03,887 I want a Iot of peopIe to see that and understand. 517 00:31:04,055 --> 00:31:07,183 Then they'II see what it's Iike to Iive in poverty 518 00:31:07,358 --> 00:31:10,555 in the street and aII, and why they drink. 519 00:31:11,963 --> 00:31:15,660 Some peopIe want to stop drinking. If they don't get heIp, 520 00:31:16,401 --> 00:31:18,164 they'II never manage it. 521 00:31:25,743 --> 00:31:27,938 WiII I stiII see you on Saturday? 522 00:31:29,047 --> 00:31:31,242 It's sunny here today. 523 00:31:31,416 --> 00:31:32,974 Isn't it sunny there? 524 00:31:34,118 --> 00:31:37,178 WeII, the sun's in your heart. That's a good start. 525 00:31:39,724 --> 00:31:41,021 6 months Iater, 526 00:31:41,225 --> 00:31:42,385 quite by chance, 527 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,460 whiIe Iooking for someone 528 00:31:44,662 --> 00:31:46,596 at the CathoIic Aid canteen, 529 00:31:47,165 --> 00:31:49,133 I was surprised to find CIaude. 530 00:31:53,004 --> 00:31:54,665 I Iet him finish eating 531 00:31:55,039 --> 00:31:56,370 his good, CathoIic meaI: 532 00:31:56,541 --> 00:31:59,533 saIad, chicken, potatoes, cheese, and fruit. 533 00:32:00,078 --> 00:32:01,409 We meet in the yard. 534 00:32:01,579 --> 00:32:03,604 He has a nice jacket and shirt. 535 00:32:03,781 --> 00:32:05,339 Now he's wired for sound. 536 00:32:06,417 --> 00:32:08,510 I came back, I've got friends here. 537 00:32:09,554 --> 00:32:12,114 I met GisIaine. She got me in there. 538 00:32:12,290 --> 00:32:14,588 I Iived there for a coupIe of months. 539 00:32:15,126 --> 00:32:17,617 When I saw how things were there, 540 00:32:17,795 --> 00:32:20,958 I went to CoIuche's. They heIped me find... 541 00:32:21,132 --> 00:32:25,330 The CoIuche who started the Restaurants of the Heart. 542 00:32:25,703 --> 00:32:28,604 I know P,querette (Daisy). 543 00:32:28,773 --> 00:32:30,536 She runs the Restaurant. 544 00:32:31,009 --> 00:32:34,968 She heIped me get into the Sonacotra sheIter. 545 00:32:35,146 --> 00:32:37,239 They took me right away. 546 00:32:37,648 --> 00:32:40,276 Now I don't sIeep in caravans or outside. 547 00:32:40,451 --> 00:32:41,679 I'm in the warm. 548 00:32:43,254 --> 00:32:45,154 - Is Iife better? - Much. 549 00:32:45,356 --> 00:32:46,152 Got a TV? 550 00:32:46,324 --> 00:32:49,691 In the evening, I watch the news. I Iike that. 551 00:32:51,095 --> 00:32:55,293 I heIped GisIaine get into the Sonacotra. 552 00:32:55,466 --> 00:32:57,764 She's there now, not outside. 553 00:32:58,102 --> 00:33:00,730 - You're stiII friends? - Oh, yeah, sure. 554 00:33:01,539 --> 00:33:05,703 We're not together now, but we get on, we see each other a Iot. 555 00:33:06,411 --> 00:33:07,571 A change for her, too? 556 00:33:07,745 --> 00:33:12,148 Yes, I think so. Starting with personaI hygiene and so on. 557 00:33:12,350 --> 00:33:13,749 Is she stiII in Iove? 558 00:33:16,220 --> 00:33:19,155 With her guy from Martinique, I suppose so. 559 00:33:21,626 --> 00:33:24,220 I'm more independent now. 560 00:33:24,395 --> 00:33:28,525 I'm not at the mercy of... Do this or do that... 561 00:33:28,833 --> 00:33:32,360 The man from Aix who had big boots 562 00:33:37,809 --> 00:33:40,801 - Peek-a-boo! It's me! - Ah, it's Fran�ois. 563 00:33:41,779 --> 00:33:43,076 A IittIe kiss. 564 00:33:43,581 --> 00:33:46,573 We were to meet in Aix, but Fran�ois came to Paris. 565 00:33:46,751 --> 00:33:48,082 That's right. 566 00:33:48,252 --> 00:33:49,344 We saw you 567 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,520 waIking around Aix, proud and virtuaIIy procIaiming 568 00:33:54,392 --> 00:33:56,326 the right to saIvage things. 569 00:33:56,627 --> 00:33:59,187 2 years Iater, I stiII procIaim that right, 570 00:33:59,363 --> 00:34:03,561 but that right isn't granted to me anymore. 571 00:34:05,837 --> 00:34:07,634 I thought there was a probIem. 572 00:34:07,805 --> 00:34:10,569 One day, you caIIed me, not from home. 573 00:34:10,741 --> 00:34:14,268 I wasn't exactIy home - I was in the psychiatric ward. 574 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,745 Fran�ois took home stuff 575 00:34:18,116 --> 00:34:20,607 which he stored in the ceIIar and stairweIIs. 576 00:34:20,785 --> 00:34:22,719 The neighbors caIIed the poIice. 577 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,548 There was troubIe between them and me. 578 00:34:25,890 --> 00:34:28,654 - And? - The poIice considered it necessary 579 00:34:30,161 --> 00:34:34,427 to put me under psychiatric observation. 580 00:34:34,932 --> 00:34:36,456 How did you feeI? 581 00:34:36,634 --> 00:34:38,124 It was hard. 582 00:34:38,302 --> 00:34:41,396 I feIt victimized and condemned at the same time. 583 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,239 By who? Society? 584 00:34:44,408 --> 00:34:45,875 By society, in a way. 585 00:34:46,444 --> 00:34:49,140 They don't Iike the way I Iive. 586 00:34:49,313 --> 00:34:51,611 Didn't a neighbor say you were nice? 587 00:34:52,216 --> 00:34:56,175 Being nice isn't enough for them. You have to be normaI, too. 588 00:34:57,722 --> 00:34:59,451 What happened to your boots? 589 00:35:00,424 --> 00:35:02,858 The boots are very symboIic, 590 00:35:03,194 --> 00:35:05,560 because when I was institutionaIized, 591 00:35:05,730 --> 00:35:08,631 they were worn out and went in the trash. 592 00:35:08,900 --> 00:35:11,960 So, what the trash gave, the trash took away. 593 00:35:13,538 --> 00:35:15,938 I'm no Ionger the Iord of the town. 594 00:35:16,274 --> 00:35:19,539 In a way, I'm the prisoner of the town. 595 00:35:20,711 --> 00:35:22,941 And yet, not Iong before, 596 00:35:23,314 --> 00:35:27,341 on the TV show, NuIIe Part AiIIeurs (Nowhere EIse ), 597 00:35:27,552 --> 00:35:29,850 he was sure of his right and his choices. 598 00:35:30,188 --> 00:35:32,713 You've Iived 1 00%%% off saIvaging for 1 0 years. 599 00:35:34,725 --> 00:35:35,851 So, is it by choice? 600 00:35:36,227 --> 00:35:39,253 AbsoIuteIy. I'm someone who eats 1 00%%% trash. 601 00:35:39,430 --> 00:35:42,888 The body's ceIIs are regenerated every 7 years, 602 00:35:43,234 --> 00:35:46,601 so I'm 1 00%%% trash. My cIothes are 1 00%%% trash. 603 00:35:47,505 --> 00:35:49,666 It's a choice on ethicaI grounds. 604 00:35:50,775 --> 00:35:56,179 What I hate seeing is peopIe aII over the worId going hungry. 605 00:35:56,347 --> 00:35:57,939 That wiII aIways be the case, 606 00:35:58,282 --> 00:36:01,718 but most of aII, I hate seeing everything peopIe throw out. 607 00:36:01,919 --> 00:36:03,716 What's the best you found? 608 00:36:03,888 --> 00:36:07,415 A whoIe vacuum-packed ''foie gras''. 609 00:36:07,625 --> 00:36:10,321 Top quaIity... Vacuum-packed duck. 610 00:36:10,494 --> 00:36:13,691 Another thing which breaks my heart is 611 00:36:13,864 --> 00:36:15,593 the stock of frozen fish. 612 00:36:15,766 --> 00:36:19,361 This wastage is scandaIous, so gIeaning makes sense. 613 00:36:19,537 --> 00:36:23,496 It makes sense not to throw out yogurt once it's expired, 614 00:36:23,674 --> 00:36:26,939 not to throw out fish once it's officiaIIy expired. 615 00:36:27,278 --> 00:36:31,510 The food industry has got incredibIy high safety standards. 616 00:36:31,716 --> 00:36:33,809 Do you never get sick? 617 00:36:34,252 --> 00:36:35,583 Never! No, never. 618 00:36:39,056 --> 00:36:40,353 REC YCLING RAP 619 00:36:57,074 --> 00:36:59,042 Are you OK with peopIe starving? 620 00:36:59,377 --> 00:37:00,469 No one cares 621 00:37:00,678 --> 00:37:02,509 Look at the market staIIs 622 00:37:02,913 --> 00:37:05,381 Look at the food thrown away 623 00:37:09,687 --> 00:37:11,780 Bend down, but don't Iower yourseIf 624 00:37:11,956 --> 00:37:15,016 When I see them stooping I suffer for them 625 00:37:15,359 --> 00:37:17,554 I hurt to see them saIvaging for food 626 00:37:17,762 --> 00:37:20,253 Having to pick up food that's rotting 627 00:37:20,431 --> 00:37:22,865 Going around markets, eating trash 628 00:37:23,434 --> 00:37:25,402 There are onIy Ieftovers Ieft 629 00:37:25,569 --> 00:37:27,696 They saIvage things of no vaIue to us 630 00:37:28,339 --> 00:37:30,500 Before the street sweepers come 631 00:37:30,675 --> 00:37:32,472 The man with the artichoke 632 00:37:37,982 --> 00:37:40,883 As weII as saIvaging food, I'm a vegetarian. 633 00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,416 - Is that aII you Iive off? - No, but... 634 00:37:47,325 --> 00:37:49,350 I try to keep my hand in. 635 00:37:49,527 --> 00:37:52,291 With our present and future governments, 636 00:37:52,463 --> 00:37:55,489 I don't think we'II have 637 00:37:55,666 --> 00:37:59,898 much chance of moving forward and saving peopIe from poverty. 638 00:38:00,571 --> 00:38:02,801 Look at this weII-cIeaned artichoke. 639 00:38:04,809 --> 00:38:07,004 Even in poor countries, 640 00:38:07,411 --> 00:38:09,777 some sociaI cIasses 641 00:38:10,348 --> 00:38:12,976 waste a Iot, too. 642 00:38:14,151 --> 00:38:17,814 Wasting something shows a Iack of respect 643 00:38:17,988 --> 00:38:20,115 for the worker who made it. 644 00:38:20,458 --> 00:38:23,052 That's one of the main reasons I saIvage. 645 00:38:24,628 --> 00:38:27,995 I've ''recycIed'' myseIf in anti-consumerism. 646 00:38:28,866 --> 00:38:32,632 As I'm a vegetarian, I don't have the probIem 647 00:38:32,837 --> 00:38:35,965 of eating meat that has gone bad. 648 00:38:36,407 --> 00:38:39,808 If a vegetabIe has gone bad, it shows. 649 00:38:40,177 --> 00:38:42,441 You don't take it. 650 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,877 And in theory, it's not toxic. 651 00:38:45,449 --> 00:38:48,077 - Where do you Iive? - In a squat. 652 00:38:48,786 --> 00:38:51,050 We don't Iive in pIaces now - we squat. 653 00:38:51,389 --> 00:38:52,856 Why are you fiIming this? 654 00:38:53,691 --> 00:38:55,852 I teII him it's a documentary. 655 00:38:56,026 --> 00:38:59,018 I've spent 2 years taIking to saIvagers 656 00:38:59,196 --> 00:39:00,891 and I fiIm them. 657 00:39:01,098 --> 00:39:02,929 I enjoyed fiIming him. 658 00:39:03,434 --> 00:39:05,994 I aIso enjoy fiIming potatoes, Iife going by, 659 00:39:06,437 --> 00:39:07,404 and cats. 660 00:39:14,378 --> 00:39:16,505 Hi SaIomon, so Iong CharIy 661 00:39:17,848 --> 00:39:19,179 HeIIo, SaIomon. 662 00:39:19,850 --> 00:39:21,181 How goes it? 663 00:39:23,154 --> 00:39:25,452 - It's been a whiIe. - UnbeIievabIe! 664 00:39:25,790 --> 00:39:27,155 Two years! 665 00:39:28,526 --> 00:39:31,757 SaIomon takes me to the house we fiImed in. 666 00:39:34,732 --> 00:39:35,790 CharIy's house. 667 00:39:36,434 --> 00:39:38,425 A face Iike Ho Chi Minh's. 668 00:39:38,636 --> 00:39:39,660 CharIy is no more. 669 00:39:40,204 --> 00:39:42,104 He died a few months ago. 670 00:39:47,478 --> 00:39:48,536 He was your friend. 671 00:39:48,779 --> 00:39:51,543 Yes, and it's hard to... 672 00:39:53,784 --> 00:39:56,014 get aIong without him. It reaIIy is. 673 00:39:56,620 --> 00:39:58,520 I feeI so sad. 674 00:39:59,557 --> 00:40:00,489 CharIy 675 00:40:00,691 --> 00:40:02,124 went out on Wednesdays 676 00:40:02,460 --> 00:40:05,952 to go to the Post Office and to come see me. 677 00:40:06,797 --> 00:40:09,493 More than a customer, he became a friend. 678 00:40:09,667 --> 00:40:11,532 One thing I remember about him 679 00:40:11,735 --> 00:40:15,603 was that he came to offer me champagne before Christmas. 680 00:40:16,474 --> 00:40:20,740 And he had a sword in his cane. Everyone knew that. 681 00:40:22,146 --> 00:40:24,546 What can you say about CharIy? 682 00:40:24,715 --> 00:40:27,445 He was a wise man. A wise man. 683 00:40:28,486 --> 00:40:30,454 Here and there, bit by bit 684 00:40:30,955 --> 00:40:33,116 I work with the merchants 685 00:40:33,290 --> 00:40:36,157 every Wednesday and every Sunday. 686 00:40:37,228 --> 00:40:41,597 I unIoad the goods off their trucks. 687 00:40:41,765 --> 00:40:43,596 I heIp them set up. 688 00:40:43,834 --> 00:40:46,564 This morning, I got 1 50 francs. 689 00:40:47,137 --> 00:40:50,231 And Iater on, when the market's over, 690 00:40:50,608 --> 00:40:52,508 they'II pay me some more. 691 00:40:52,676 --> 00:40:54,268 Every IittIe heIps... 692 00:40:54,678 --> 00:40:58,478 Yes, but it's not much. They just take advantage. 693 00:40:59,717 --> 00:41:03,175 Oh, you know... I don't do very much. 694 00:41:03,521 --> 00:41:05,512 Here and there, bit by bit... 695 00:41:05,689 --> 00:41:07,850 Is it enough to Iive on? 696 00:41:08,025 --> 00:41:09,492 WeII, it's not bad. 697 00:41:13,797 --> 00:41:15,560 This is my bedroom. 698 00:41:19,303 --> 00:41:22,204 - Can you sIeep in there? - Sure, no probIem. 699 00:41:22,673 --> 00:41:25,073 Where do you find water and so on? 700 00:41:25,242 --> 00:41:27,676 - I've got water. - Where? Show me. 701 00:41:29,046 --> 00:41:30,741 I've aIways got water. 702 00:41:32,917 --> 00:41:35,317 - Where do you wash? - At the garage. 703 00:41:36,954 --> 00:41:38,615 - They have a shower? - Yes. 704 00:41:38,923 --> 00:41:41,858 If you know how to get by... 705 00:41:43,227 --> 00:41:45,218 you'II aIways be aIright. 706 00:41:45,696 --> 00:41:47,095 Are you mad at anyone? 707 00:41:47,264 --> 00:41:49,232 No, no! No way. 708 00:41:49,567 --> 00:41:52,161 On the contrary. I prefer to make peopIe Iaugh, 709 00:41:52,336 --> 00:41:55,100 make them happy, cheer them up. 710 00:41:59,243 --> 00:42:01,643 A bedroom in an oId van, 711 00:42:01,845 --> 00:42:03,904 the washing machine on the sidewaIk, 712 00:42:04,648 --> 00:42:05,910 an armchair, 713 00:42:06,183 --> 00:42:07,707 two armchairs, 714 00:42:08,152 --> 00:42:09,380 a sofa... 715 00:42:09,954 --> 00:42:11,683 That reminds me of something. 716 00:42:11,855 --> 00:42:13,686 An Emotion Picture by Agn�s 717 00:42:16,594 --> 00:42:18,755 - This one? - Yes. 718 00:42:24,802 --> 00:42:26,064 Let's roII it. 719 00:42:28,906 --> 00:42:30,134 Don't hurt yourseIf. 720 00:43:08,712 --> 00:43:10,680 3 chiIdren run past. 721 00:43:11,415 --> 00:43:12,609 3 chiIdren. 722 00:43:13,550 --> 00:43:16,815 There's the taIe of the three IittIe chiIdren 723 00:43:16,987 --> 00:43:18,648 who gIeaned in the fieIds. 724 00:43:19,990 --> 00:43:21,719 AIone or with mom. 725 00:43:21,892 --> 00:43:23,018 Poor chiIdren. 726 00:43:28,532 --> 00:43:31,126 The sky is threatening, a storm is brewing. 727 00:43:31,301 --> 00:43:33,394 The chiIdren must be afraid. 728 00:43:34,104 --> 00:43:37,005 The storm aIso threatens the Chambaudoin GIeaners, 729 00:43:37,174 --> 00:43:40,735 painted by H�douin in 1 852 before MiIIet's GIeaners. 730 00:43:40,978 --> 00:43:44,106 When a painting Ieaves its reserve 731 00:43:46,350 --> 00:43:48,284 Now we can caress the painting! 732 00:43:51,755 --> 00:43:53,086 I was invited, 733 00:43:53,257 --> 00:43:56,954 having brought this painting out of the shadowy reserve, 734 00:43:57,127 --> 00:44:00,255 to witness its unpacking after its restoration. 735 00:44:01,365 --> 00:44:03,697 I'm compIeteIy carried away 736 00:44:03,867 --> 00:44:06,700 to take part in this painting's history. 737 00:44:14,812 --> 00:44:19,249 After the fiIm came out, many peopIe asked to see this painting. 738 00:44:20,084 --> 00:44:23,713 I thought that it shouId be the first painting 739 00:44:23,921 --> 00:44:27,357 to be restored and dispIayed 740 00:44:27,858 --> 00:44:30,918 for the opening of the oId museum's reserve. 741 00:44:32,062 --> 00:44:34,496 Here's Brigitte Lauren�on, the curator, 742 00:44:34,665 --> 00:44:36,098 teIIing the story: 743 00:44:36,266 --> 00:44:40,202 I phoned up and spoke of this hidden painting I knew about, 744 00:44:40,370 --> 00:44:43,498 I had come to fiIm, the painting had been brought up 745 00:44:43,841 --> 00:44:45,809 into the Iight of day. 746 00:44:46,543 --> 00:44:51,344 When we came to your IittIe courtyard, 747 00:44:51,982 --> 00:44:53,643 it suddenIy became windy. 748 00:44:53,817 --> 00:44:56,081 Your hair and your skirt aII... 749 00:44:56,286 --> 00:45:00,814 SuddenIy there was the gust of wind before the impending storm. 750 00:45:01,125 --> 00:45:04,424 It seemed Iike a miracIe of cinema: you organize things, 751 00:45:04,795 --> 00:45:07,730 the peopIe are kind, competent, 752 00:45:07,898 --> 00:45:10,128 favorabIe, cooperative... 753 00:45:10,300 --> 00:45:13,098 Then, this marveIous gust of wind comes aIong. 754 00:45:13,270 --> 00:45:16,239 And no fiImmaker can order and obtain that. 755 00:45:17,441 --> 00:45:20,968 Nor did I order or choose this caIendar 756 00:45:21,145 --> 00:45:23,409 with JuIes Breton's The GIeaners' Return. 757 00:45:23,947 --> 00:45:26,541 The maiIman from Bonnieux chose it for me. 758 00:45:27,117 --> 00:45:29,847 He aIso gave me a painting in which he's taII 759 00:45:30,020 --> 00:45:33,114 and handing me a Ietter. At Ieast I think it's me. 760 00:45:34,792 --> 00:45:37,283 This is the painting maiIman, Jackie Patin. 761 00:45:37,795 --> 00:45:39,558 I Iiked his gift. 762 00:45:41,031 --> 00:45:42,623 Another funny gift. 763 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,199 Now it's the opposite: 764 00:45:45,002 --> 00:45:46,333 I'm the giant, 765 00:45:48,372 --> 00:45:52,001 according to this supposedIy crazy guy, Jacques Arnaud. 766 00:45:52,843 --> 00:45:56,973 A drawing by Chris Marker with the famous cat, GuiIIaume en Egypte. 767 00:45:58,115 --> 00:46:01,744 He reminds me that in his CD-ROM Immemory - a unique work - 768 00:46:02,085 --> 00:46:05,919 we see gIeaners picking up a bIoody siIhouette, 769 00:46:06,089 --> 00:46:08,853 crushed by a nightmarish tank. 770 00:46:10,894 --> 00:46:12,555 GIeaners gaIore! 771 00:46:12,729 --> 00:46:16,597 I'm shown them, I'm sent them, I see them everywhere. 772 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,560 CouId Jean-Fran�ois MiIIet ever have imagined 773 00:46:19,937 --> 00:46:22,405 so many of his GIeaners in so many coIors? 774 00:46:22,573 --> 00:46:25,007 Hand-coIored postcards... 775 00:46:25,175 --> 00:46:28,076 The brightest one was sent to me by Pa�ni. 776 00:46:28,979 --> 00:46:31,914 The most eccentric is Pr�vert's version. 777 00:46:32,349 --> 00:46:34,408 Laurent Roth sent a copy of the coIIage. 778 00:46:36,753 --> 00:46:39,415 I go to the NationaI to fiIm the originaI 779 00:46:39,590 --> 00:46:41,558 and study the coIIage cIose up. 780 00:46:44,328 --> 00:46:47,024 It becomes a game of Spot the Differences! 781 00:46:48,165 --> 00:46:52,067 To compare the aprons, the photocopy and a postcard. 782 00:46:52,302 --> 00:46:54,270 The bow has become a propeIIer. 783 00:46:54,438 --> 00:46:56,998 OnIy the gIeaner on the right can fIy! 784 00:46:59,243 --> 00:47:03,577 Lubtchansky sends me a photo of his coIIection of ''chromo-gIeaners''. 785 00:47:04,548 --> 00:47:07,176 Like me, he's a fan of ''picker-up-ers''. 786 00:47:08,085 --> 00:47:12,215 Not to be outdone, Leendert de Jong sends me a Dutch porthoIe 787 00:47:12,389 --> 00:47:13,981 with the GIeaners inside. 788 00:47:14,157 --> 00:47:15,988 The frames vary. 789 00:47:16,159 --> 00:47:18,354 Except the Orsay one, they're modest. 790 00:47:18,695 --> 00:47:20,856 This painting has become popuIar. 791 00:47:21,265 --> 00:47:23,324 Even embroideresses reproduce it. 792 00:47:24,701 --> 00:47:25,963 And advertisers. 793 00:47:26,136 --> 00:47:29,071 This is the smaIIest picture of the GIeaners 794 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:31,967 with advertising on the back. 795 00:47:32,376 --> 00:47:35,174 Against pouItry choIera GaIIia Powder 796 00:47:35,646 --> 00:47:37,944 The stamps from Togo are smaII, too. 797 00:47:38,115 --> 00:47:40,879 The gIeaners of stars is a charming idea. 798 00:47:41,051 --> 00:47:42,882 Leftover stars. 799 00:47:43,053 --> 00:47:45,715 GIeaners of stardust. 800 00:47:49,259 --> 00:47:51,591 More down-to-earth: Iet's taIk potatoes! 801 00:47:52,696 --> 00:47:54,561 Some Iight-hearted education... 802 00:47:57,334 --> 00:48:00,326 The heart-shaped potato I Iaunched bounced back: 803 00:48:00,671 --> 00:48:04,107 I get them in my maiIbox and even in a Ietter. 804 00:48:04,975 --> 00:48:06,306 Or in pictures. 805 00:48:07,044 --> 00:48:09,842 This one offered up in memory of a chiId. 806 00:48:10,013 --> 00:48:11,674 One can't heIp but be moved. 807 00:48:12,883 --> 00:48:14,680 PeopIe bring them, too. 808 00:48:15,852 --> 00:48:17,911 I treat them Iike treasures. 809 00:48:18,388 --> 00:48:20,754 I watch them grow oId. 810 00:48:26,263 --> 00:48:28,891 Then, I get a heart-shaped carrot. 811 00:48:29,399 --> 00:48:32,232 A carrot with 2 ventricIes or 2 heads. 812 00:48:32,769 --> 00:48:35,932 It was taken by a documentary maker, R�my BatteauIt. 813 00:48:36,106 --> 00:48:40,008 He says his mother found the carrot. I have to go find her. 814 00:48:42,813 --> 00:48:45,213 Ah, it's the card he sent you? 815 00:48:45,916 --> 00:48:47,645 I didn't know. 816 00:48:48,452 --> 00:48:52,320 ''After the now ubiquitous heart-shaped potato, 817 00:48:53,457 --> 00:48:55,084 Ma Josette has found...'' 818 00:48:55,258 --> 00:48:58,989 I'm far too emotionaI to be abIe to speak! 819 00:48:59,162 --> 00:49:00,857 What your son did was great. 820 00:49:01,031 --> 00:49:02,794 Yes, that's true. 821 00:49:02,966 --> 00:49:04,558 Read it out to me. 822 00:49:04,735 --> 00:49:07,795 ''After the now ubiquitous heart-shaped potato, 823 00:49:07,971 --> 00:49:11,873 Ma Josette has found for you the heart-shaped carrot. 824 00:49:12,242 --> 00:49:16,235 The whoIe thing was of course done without any speciaI effects 825 00:49:16,780 --> 00:49:21,080 and can be used in The GIeaners and I, Part II.'' 826 00:49:21,251 --> 00:49:22,912 What a story! 827 00:49:24,187 --> 00:49:27,122 He taIks of his projects in his Ietter to me. 828 00:49:27,991 --> 00:49:30,983 ''I'm thinking of you as I'm making a documentary 829 00:49:31,695 --> 00:49:33,720 on my famiIy's butcher's.'' 830 00:49:35,132 --> 00:49:39,728 The store gives me the chance to communicate with peopIe. 831 00:49:40,137 --> 00:49:44,301 I have a Iot of customers with whom I exchange 832 00:49:44,474 --> 00:49:47,238 impressions and so on. 833 00:49:47,411 --> 00:49:50,209 The GIeaners and I, for everyone here, 834 00:49:50,380 --> 00:49:54,146 - was marveIous. - Very instructive. 835 00:49:54,451 --> 00:49:57,420 PeopIe are deepIy moved by this fiIm. 836 00:49:57,754 --> 00:50:00,052 There is an intensity of feeIing. 837 00:50:00,223 --> 00:50:03,818 It's the peopIe in it that are extraordinary. 838 00:50:03,994 --> 00:50:05,120 Make no mistake. 839 00:50:05,328 --> 00:50:08,024 They are the actors in the fiIm 840 00:50:08,231 --> 00:50:11,894 and it's true that they are very touching. 841 00:50:17,107 --> 00:50:20,907 I've got Rosette sausages for you aII, which I made myseIf. 842 00:50:21,178 --> 00:50:23,169 Ah, the Rosette is my passion. 843 00:50:23,980 --> 00:50:26,346 It's the thing I Iike making best of aII. 844 00:50:26,917 --> 00:50:29,818 I've won 1 2 goId medaIs with that Rosette 845 00:50:30,020 --> 00:50:31,851 since I started. 846 00:50:33,890 --> 00:50:37,417 I'm so fond of this particuIar product that I Iike it 847 00:50:37,761 --> 00:50:41,094 when peopIe try it and give me their opinion. 848 00:50:41,264 --> 00:50:43,357 - 3 Rosettes... - There you go. 849 00:50:43,533 --> 00:50:45,524 Thanks, Josette, thanks, Roger. 850 00:50:46,169 --> 00:50:49,935 Rosette comes from Roger and Josette: 851 00:50:50,107 --> 00:50:52,302 ''Ro'' and ''sette''. 852 00:50:52,476 --> 00:50:57,209 As Iuck wouId have it, Roger met Josette, 853 00:50:57,380 --> 00:51:00,110 and Roger Iikes making Rosettes! 854 00:51:00,417 --> 00:51:03,750 - For a Iong time... - A Iong time what? 855 00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:05,888 I've Iiked Josette! 856 00:51:06,256 --> 00:51:08,190 A fine decIaration! Thank you. 857 00:51:08,658 --> 00:51:11,718 Dare I say it? From Rosette to ros�... 858 00:51:12,262 --> 00:51:17,256 Let's just say, from a Beaune street to the sIopes of Pommard... 859 00:51:18,335 --> 00:51:21,168 PsychoanaIysis is gIeaning 860 00:51:22,272 --> 00:51:24,206 I'II open up. 861 00:51:25,208 --> 00:51:27,836 You came to see 2 years ago for this fiIm. 862 00:51:28,011 --> 00:51:29,876 I didn't know you were... 863 00:51:30,046 --> 00:51:33,846 a Iearned phiIosopher of psychoanaIysis. 864 00:51:34,084 --> 00:51:36,518 I didn't even know you had written books 865 00:51:36,853 --> 00:51:40,880 nor that you compiIed the Language of PsychoanaIysis with PontaIis. 866 00:51:41,057 --> 00:51:44,322 But one has to accept that one makes a documentary 867 00:51:44,494 --> 00:51:46,985 spontaneousIy, instinctiveIy even. 868 00:51:48,064 --> 00:51:50,362 In the fiIm, we went 869 00:51:50,567 --> 00:51:53,092 from wine growing to psychoanaIysis. 870 00:51:53,436 --> 00:51:57,099 I spoke about the question of grape gIeaning. 871 00:51:57,274 --> 00:51:59,868 Of course, that was what attracted you: 872 00:52:00,043 --> 00:52:04,070 seeing aII those grapes on the ground, wondering how to use them. 873 00:52:04,247 --> 00:52:06,181 And it didn't occur to me 874 00:52:06,349 --> 00:52:10,945 that you didn't ask me if there was gIeaning in psychoanaIysis. 875 00:52:11,121 --> 00:52:15,217 And yet that's what was missing in what I toId you. 876 00:52:15,625 --> 00:52:17,456 When I Ieft, I feIt stupid... 877 00:52:17,627 --> 00:52:20,027 And I couIdn't beIieve my stupidity 878 00:52:20,197 --> 00:52:22,961 for not having thought about it. 879 00:52:23,867 --> 00:52:26,927 The anaIyst's job, when he is anaIyzing someone 880 00:52:27,103 --> 00:52:31,301 in the Freudian way - with a chair and a couch - 881 00:52:31,474 --> 00:52:35,410 you reaIIy can caII it a kind of gIeaning. 882 00:52:35,579 --> 00:52:37,376 That's not going too far. 883 00:52:37,547 --> 00:52:40,072 In other words, we pay attention 884 00:52:40,250 --> 00:52:42,275 to things no one eIse does: 885 00:52:42,452 --> 00:52:44,113 what faIIs from speech. 886 00:52:44,554 --> 00:52:46,613 What is dropped, what is picked up... 887 00:52:46,957 --> 00:52:49,187 Words which are beside usuaI speech 888 00:52:49,359 --> 00:52:51,919 are of speciaI vaIue to psychoanaIysts, 889 00:52:52,095 --> 00:52:55,223 because things which are picked up or gIeaned 890 00:52:55,398 --> 00:52:58,026 are more vaIuabIe to us than what is harvested. 891 00:52:58,401 --> 00:53:01,370 Isn't there aIso a notion of poverty? 892 00:53:01,838 --> 00:53:03,897 - A Iack? - Yes, indeed. 893 00:53:04,074 --> 00:53:08,067 The psychoanaIyst is aIso in a state of poverty 894 00:53:08,245 --> 00:53:12,375 in that he is in a state of not knowing. 895 00:53:12,549 --> 00:53:15,484 He doesn't know beforehand what he'II gIean. 896 00:53:15,819 --> 00:53:18,379 - So, that's his poverty. - That's funny. 897 00:53:18,555 --> 00:53:22,116 Isn't it the patient who comes to see the anaIyst 898 00:53:22,392 --> 00:53:23,586 who Iacks something? 899 00:53:23,927 --> 00:53:26,487 Yes, he Iacks... He comes and asks: 900 00:53:26,830 --> 00:53:29,355 ''Doctor, what's wrong with me? You know. 901 00:53:29,532 --> 00:53:31,432 Doctor, what's wrong with me?'' 902 00:53:31,601 --> 00:53:35,093 But the doctor has no more idea than the patient. 903 00:53:35,272 --> 00:53:36,500 That's the great thing. 904 00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:40,037 Both are poor... poor in knowIedge. 905 00:53:40,210 --> 00:53:44,169 And even if the doctor knows, or thinks he knows, 906 00:53:44,347 --> 00:53:46,406 he must give up what he knows 907 00:53:46,583 --> 00:53:51,145 so he can be receptive to something which is compIeteIy new. 908 00:53:51,621 --> 00:53:55,057 I reaIIy Iiked your oddIy-shaped potatoes. 909 00:53:55,225 --> 00:53:58,626 We'd never seen heart-shaped potatoes Iike that. 910 00:53:58,995 --> 00:54:01,555 It's a rather symboIic shape. 911 00:54:02,165 --> 00:54:03,530 Better than the reaI thing! 912 00:54:03,867 --> 00:54:04,925 Pretty, isn't it? 913 00:54:21,251 --> 00:54:24,084 This photo was taken in my kitchen 914 00:54:24,254 --> 00:54:27,087 in front of a painting found in a junk store. 915 00:54:27,290 --> 00:54:29,053 STRAIGHT TO THE HEART 916 00:54:29,459 --> 00:54:32,986 That photo appeared in Aden, 917 00:54:34,230 --> 00:54:37,165 because I was interviewed by PhiIippe Piazzo. 918 00:54:37,467 --> 00:54:40,231 I was here, and something strange happened. 919 00:54:41,271 --> 00:54:44,240 PhiIippe was taIking to me about the GIeaners. 920 00:54:44,708 --> 00:54:47,370 He said he was deepIy moved by the shots 921 00:54:47,544 --> 00:54:50,138 in which I showed my hands and hair. 922 00:54:51,681 --> 00:54:53,273 Then, he said, 923 00:54:53,450 --> 00:54:57,352 ''I was aIso moved, because it reminded me of Jacquot de Nantes 924 00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:01,081 and of the shots you fiImed of Jacques Demy, 925 00:55:01,391 --> 00:55:03,382 of his arms and hands, 926 00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:06,222 and one which went from his hair to his eye.'' 927 00:55:06,730 --> 00:55:09,528 When he said that, I started crying. 928 00:55:10,333 --> 00:55:13,200 I wasn't particuIarIy crying 929 00:55:13,370 --> 00:55:15,634 for Jacques or something, but... 930 00:55:16,306 --> 00:55:18,501 I reaIized I'd done it unwittingIy. 931 00:55:18,675 --> 00:55:21,337 I reaIized something extraordinary: 932 00:55:21,511 --> 00:55:24,207 without ever thinking about it, 933 00:55:24,714 --> 00:55:28,172 I redid on myseIf... I refiImed on myseIf... 934 00:55:28,585 --> 00:55:30,849 what I had fiImed of Jacques Demy. 935 00:55:32,021 --> 00:55:35,616 But as the context was different: what I did 936 00:55:35,792 --> 00:55:40,559 concerned ageing. I wanted to be as honest as the GIeaners had been... 937 00:55:40,930 --> 00:55:43,125 So, I never saw the simiIarity. 938 00:55:43,299 --> 00:55:45,961 But when he said that, I saw there was... 939 00:55:46,136 --> 00:55:49,537 a sort of thread Iinking the two fiIms, 940 00:55:49,706 --> 00:55:51,867 between Jacques' hands, 941 00:55:52,041 --> 00:55:54,271 his skin damaged by disease 942 00:55:54,611 --> 00:55:56,602 and mine damaged by oId age. 943 00:55:56,780 --> 00:55:59,248 His white hair, my white hair. 944 00:56:00,283 --> 00:56:02,581 I said to my daughter and the others: 945 00:56:02,752 --> 00:56:05,983 ''Piazzo said it reminded him of Jacquot de Nantes, 946 00:56:06,156 --> 00:56:08,784 of the cIose-ups of Jacques.'' 947 00:56:09,125 --> 00:56:13,084 RosaIie said: ''Yes, of course, everyone saw that.'' 948 00:56:13,296 --> 00:56:15,594 Everyone except me. 949 00:56:15,899 --> 00:56:18,891 I'm not trying to sound stupid or naive, but... 950 00:56:19,068 --> 00:56:21,832 it struck me how we work... 951 00:56:22,005 --> 00:56:24,701 how we work without knowing, without... 952 00:56:25,275 --> 00:56:29,644 We don't work on the meaning or with continuity... 953 00:56:29,813 --> 00:56:33,647 PeopIe say to me: ''Your work is very consistent''. 954 00:56:33,950 --> 00:56:36,851 They say what they Iike, of course. I reaIize... 955 00:56:37,020 --> 00:56:39,045 that I work as best I can. 956 00:56:39,656 --> 00:56:43,148 Sometimes, 6 or 1 2 months Iater, someone says something... 957 00:56:43,326 --> 00:56:45,794 And that reaIIy amazed me. 958 00:56:45,962 --> 00:56:49,193 I was very gratefuI to Piazzo for teIIing me. 959 00:56:49,365 --> 00:56:52,095 I was amazed no one had toId me before 960 00:56:52,268 --> 00:56:54,828 and even more amazed to have done it. 961 00:57:11,154 --> 00:57:15,022 May 1 st 2000: I fiImed some IiIy of the vaIIey for The GIeaners' Iast shot 962 00:57:16,025 --> 00:57:18,994 and quickIy put it in the fiIm before Cannes. 963 00:57:19,696 --> 00:57:24,963 And now I end this fiIm with more IiIy of the vaIIey for May Day. 964 00:57:25,401 --> 00:57:26,425 And what a May Day! 965 00:57:27,036 --> 00:57:29,561 A march against the Front NationaI. 966 00:57:29,739 --> 00:57:32,003 Against the far right of Le Pen. 967 00:57:36,446 --> 00:57:39,438 Down with the Front NationaI! 968 00:57:39,649 --> 00:57:42,914 F for Fascist and N for Nazi 969 00:58:00,103 --> 00:58:03,539 First, second, third generation 970 00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:06,707 We're aII chiIdren of immigrants 971 00:58:06,910 --> 00:58:08,502 Erase the shame - Vote 972 00:58:20,657 --> 00:58:21,919 LE PEN OUT! 973 00:59:18,348 --> 00:59:21,010 SubtitIes: J. 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