Word: vagabonding
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...VAGABOND Agnes Varda's bleak portrayal of a runaway adolescent on her last legs is also a meditation on the unknowability of human motives and a tour de force for Actress Sandrine Bonnaire...
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...Vagabond opens with the discovery of an unknown girl, frozen in a ditch by the side of the road. The film's action (this is definitely a film, not a movie) retraces the path that led this girl, Mona, to her death...
...Vagabond is powerful primarily because of its atmosphere--the way it turns bleak, open stretches of landscape into symbols of freedom, and thus manages to turn a young girl's random travels into a symbolic human odyssey. Until the end, you feel the movie is as much about the people she's met as about Mona herself, with a little about humanity in general thrown in. Mona's death scene at the end of the film completely destroys the subtle mood it has worked so hard to create, but regardless of the disappointing end, the fascinated detachment with which...