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04/12/1985 Drama 1h 46m
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Overview

Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.

  1. Agnès Varda

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Sandrine Bonnaire

    Mona Bergeron

  2. Macha Méril

    Madame Landier

  3. Yolande Moreau

    Yolande

  4. Stéphane Freiss

    Jean-Pierre

  5. Setti Ramdane

    The Moroccan Who Discovers Mona

  6. Yahiaoui Assouna

    Assoun

  7. Marthe Jarnias

    Old Aunt Lydie

  8. Francis Balchère

    Gendarmerie

  9. Jean-Louis Perletti

    Gendarmerie

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-05-15
Sandrine Bonnaire delivers really quite well in this observational drama of a young, rootless, girl who roams the countryside living from hand to mouth. Now we start with "Mona" dead in a ditch - so there's little jeopardy, but that also serves a useful frame of reference to this depiction of her last fortnight or so of life. It's presented episodically as she encounters a goat-herder, squats with a pot-smoker for a few days, falls in love with an handsome Tunisian grape-picker and my own favourite - manages to get quite well oiled with a curmudgeonly old lady who simply needed to let her hair...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$8,100,000.00

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