Vagabond

Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi, 1985) is a French drama directed by Agnès Varda — watch it online on iFILM. It opens with a fact: a young woman named Mona has been found dead, frozen in a ditch in the south of France. What follows is the film reconstructing her final weeks through the people who crossed her path — farmers, students, migrant workers, a professor, a wandering philosopher.

None of them really knew her. That's the point. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Mona with a ferocity that refuses audience sympathy as a given — she was 17 during filming and took the César Award for Best Actress for it. Mona asks for nothing and explains nothing. She drifts. She refuses. She disappears.

Varda's method is essayistic and precise: talking-head interviews cut against quiet observational footage, building a portrait out of gaps and projections. This is not a film about why Mona died — it's about why no one could hold onto her while she was alive. One of the defining films of 1980s European cinema. Stream Vagabond (1985) online on iFILM.