gleaner

Mechanization soon followed, with threshing machines and combine harvesters leaving less behind for gleaners to collect.

It just cannot produce louder calls than it does, because as a descendant of a gleaner it is probably morphologically limited.

And of course Varda herself is the film’s chief gleaner: There is, as she says, “no law governing this type of gleaning — of images, impressions, emotions.”

Watch how volunteer harvesters, otherwise known as gleaners, are helping to fight food waste straight from the source - the farms themselves.

She cited a statue of nude washerwoman in Bologna dating to 2001, as well as a statue of a scantily clad gleaner unveiled last year.