I watched Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse this weekend, the Belgian film about the French law requiring farmers to allow peasants to collect the leftovers after seasonal harvests that I posted on last week. It was fantastic. Complete with a very present eccentric narrator. For others who haven’t yet seen it, here’s a preview from a British TV station. My favorite was a gourmet chef in the country who picks his own herbs, veggies and grapes from other people’s farms after harvest and cooks and serves them at his restaurant. There are some touchingly somber scenes as well depicting those who really need free produce to get by.
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