Au hasard Balthazar1966
Both picked by Wim Wenders’ in the Criterion Closet, both directed by Robert Bresson, and both starring Jean-Claude Guilbert
- Criterion Collection
- Spine №363
- Commentary
- 1 track on the Channel player
Synopsis
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feeling with MOUCHETTE, one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film. Faced with a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace in nature and daily routine, a respite from her economic and pubescent turmoil. An essential work of French filmmaking, Bresson’s hugely empathetic drama elevates its trapped protagonist into one of the cinema’s great tragic figures.
