Double Feature: AU HASARD BALTHAZAR, 1966, MOUCHETTE, 1967 May 13, 2012

Sunday, May 13 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: AU HASARD BALTHAZAR, 1966, Rialto Pictures, 95 min. Robert Bresson’s brief, elliptical tale about the life and death of a donkey contains such plenitude - in its steady accumulation of incident, characters, mystery and social detail, its implicative use of sound, off-screen space and editing - that it might very well merit Godard’s famous claim that it is “the world in an hour and a half.” Paralleling the mistreatment and downfall of two innocents - Marie, a young farmer’s daughter, and Balthazar, a Christ-like donkey passed from one master to the next - the film has been chosen as one of the greatest in cinema history by countless critics and cinephiles. In French with English subtitles. [35mm]
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MOUCHETTE, 1967, Tamasa, 82 min. Dir. Robert Bresson. Based on a novel by Georges Bernanos (who also penned Diary of a Country Priest), Bresson’s masterpiece chronicles the last days in the barren, isolated life of a poor provincial girl (Nadine Nortier), beset with a dying mother, an alcoholic father and an infant brother, who greets ridicule and humiliation with a truculent defiance. In French with English subtitles.
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