Sandrine Bonnaire won a Cesar Award for her portrayal of Mona, a defiant young drifter who is found frozen in a ditch. Using a largely non-professional cast, Agnes Varda recollects Mona's story through the flashbacks of those who encountered her, producing a splintered portrait of an enigmatic woman. Told in sparsely poetic images set against the frozen landscape of mid-winter Nimes, "Vagabond" is Varda's finest film to date.
