Who is Marie in Au Hasard Balthazar / Mouchette?

Anne Wiazemsky plays Marie in the film.

What is Au Hasard Balthazar / Mouchette about?

AU HASARD BALTHAZAR, 1966, 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.” In French with English subtitles. MOUCHETTE, 1967, 82 min. 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.

Au Hasard Balthazar / Mouchette

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Who directed Au Hasard Balthazar / Mouchette?: Robert Bresson

Who is Marie in Au Hasard Balthazar / Mouchette?: Anne Wiazemsky plays Marie in the film.

What is Au Hasard Balthazar / Mouchette about?: AU HASARD BALTHAZAR, 1966, 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.” In French with English subtitles.

MOUCHETTE, 1967, 82 min. 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.