They should have stuck with the original French title—Sans toit ni loi, which translates literally as “Without roof or law”—because the Americanized title Vagabond brings a hint of inappropriate romanticization to the film’s visually bare and barren portrait of an 18-year-old living on the road in the wintry south of France. With her hollow eyes, Sandrine Bonnaire is perfectly cast as the antiheroine who we know from the outset will wind up frozen to death in a ditch. Varda’s patchwork approach of subjective portraits echoes Citizen Kane, reminding us that no one is ever fully knowable. (DVD)