Vagabond

The film opens with the body of a young woman, Mona, found dead in the winter countryside, then works backwards through the accounts of those who met her on the road. It reconstructs her last weeks as she drifts from place to place, refusing work, ties, and help.

The portrait is an anatomy of alienation and the wish to fall outside the shared order of society, refusing every attachment offered to her. It is a searching text on freedom, isolation, and the limits of the social bond. It won the Golden Lion at the 1985 Venice Film Festival.