I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is … - Agnes Varda

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They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other. . . . or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

Agnes Varda

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.

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