The Gleaners and I vs The Last Class

The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for The Gleaners and I). The Last Class is the shorter watch at 1h 11m compared with 1h 22m. The Gleaners and I is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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The Gleaners and IThe Last Class
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 10.0/10
Year20002025
Length1h 22m1h 11m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country––
DirectorAgnès VardaElliot Kirschner
Main castBodan Litnanski, Agnès Varda, François WertheimerRobert Reich

Synopsis

The Gleaners and I

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.

The Last Class

American political economist, professor, author, and social media sensation Robert Reich teaches his final "Wealth and Poverty" class to 1,000 students at UC Berkeley, ending a 40-year career that reached 40,000 students. One thousand fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich's wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. His belief in the next generation's…

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