Vagabond

1985 • 1h 46m •

Drama

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★ 7.4/10

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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.

Top Billed Cast

Sandrine Bonnaire

Mona Bergeron

Macha Méril

Madame Landier

Yolande Moreau

Yolande

Stéphane Freiss

Jean-Pierre

Setti Ramdane

The Moroccan Who Discovers Mona

Yahiaoui Assouna

Assoun

Marthe Jarnias

Old Aunt Lydie

Francis Balchère

Gendarmerie

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C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic

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...