In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She's unkempt, a vagabond. Through flashbacks and brief interviews, we trace her final weeks as she camps alone or falls in with various men and women, many of whom project their needs onto her or try to give her life direction.
The film combines straightforward narrative scenes, in which we see Mona living her life, with pseudo-documentary sequences in which people who knew Mona turn to the camera and comment on what they remember about her. Significant events are sometimes left unshown, so that the viewer must piece the information together to gain a full picture.
I enjoyed the concept of this film. Telling a story in flashback is not new, and in some cases may even be cliché. But I like that this film starts with a "vagabond", someone we expect to be a fairly unremarkable human being, and then fleshes them out to be a rather interesting (maybe even fascinating) subject...
The film combines straightforward narrative scenes, in which we see Mona living her life, with pseudo-documentary sequences in which people who knew Mona turn to the camera and comment on what they remember about her. Significant events are sometimes left unshown, so that the viewer must piece the information together to gain a full picture.
I enjoyed the concept of this film. Telling a story in flashback is not new, and in some cases may even be cliché. But I like that this film starts with a "vagabond", someone we expect to be a fairly unremarkable human being, and then fleshes them out to be a rather interesting (maybe even fascinating) subject...