I can't believe that I saw this film ten years ago in Dr. Flitterman-Lewis' class on Women and Film at Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was probably one of the most memorable films from that class. I thought Sandrine Bonnaire did an absolute brilliant job as playing Mona. I felt so sorry for her. She was never really home anywhere and nothing ever worked out for her. Maybe she just didn't fit in anywhere and longed for something better but she was getting worse. She lived anywhere in the fields, etc. She needed the kindness of strangers who never forgot her as they told her friends. She needed a bath to be washed away from the dirt of her existence. She never belonged anywhere. We didn't know her parents or where she came from. She just came and left without answering questions.
Review of Vagabond
