Vagabond - 1985 *

Yet another hideously dreadful movie, this time about a woman who gives up her comfortable and stable life and decides to roam around like a tramp and live 'off the land' because she doesn't feel emotionally connected to her old life. The people that try to help her are treated awfully as she appears to have no respect for herself or anyone else and is one of the most unpleasant characters I have ever had the misfortune to see. Giving up a good life to wander off and sleep in fields and beg for money doesn't sound like the ideas of a sane woman, and it was with relief that she succumbs to the elements at the end of the film. Or rather we are shown this all at the beginning and then led to the end again in a flashback... you know, one of THOSE films that mixes everything up? Maybe it was to confuse us so that we wouldn't realise what we were actually watching. Didn't work for me though. Probably means the actress playing the vagabond was damn good though to make me hate her so...