The Gleaners
"The Gleaners and I" went on to earn awards around the world including top honors at the Chicago International Film Festival, Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, the European Film Awards, the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the National Society of Film Critics Awards (USA), the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Online Film Critics Society Awards and the Prague One World Film Festival ("The Gleaners &amp; I"). In addition to its festival honors, "The Gleaners and I" was “declared the best French film of 2000 by the French Union of Film Critics, which broke with tradition by not choosing a dramatic film.” It also brought audiences to theaters for over eight months. In Paris it attracted 43,000 movie-goers during “the first nine weeks of its summer release.” Haden Guest, the director of the Harvard Film Archive, hailed "The Gleaners and I" as “one of Varda's most powerful and popular films” (47). Even Varda, herself, remarked at the film's success, "I've never in my entire career felt that people have loved a film of mine as much as this one.”