“A masterpiece, clearly one of the finest films in many a year.” (Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune)

Sandrine Bonnaire (La Cérémonie) won the Best Actress César for her portrayal of the defiant young drifter Mona, who is found frozen to death in a ditch at the beginning of Vagabond. Agnès Varda tells Mona’s bleak story through flashbacks related by dozens of people who encountered her, producing a nonlinear, splintered portrait of an enigmatic woman. With its sparse, poetic imagery and a largely nonprofessional cast, Vagabond is a stunner that was hailed as one of the great films of the 1980s by critics and film juries alike.