One of our great humanist directors with one of the most recognizable styles.

| Mar 2, 2023

Disturbing and heart-rending.

| Aug 12, 2022

Robert Bresson followed 1966's Au hasard Balthazar with another film equally as unlikely to top anyone's list of "feel-good" movies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 28, 2020

The film has apparently melted down to a short story, being adapted from a Bernanos novel, but it moves on about five levels.

| Jun 18, 2019

Like Au Hasard, Balthazar, Mouchette is a deeply pessimistic film which somehow leaves one in a mood close to exhilaration.

| Apr 7, 2015

A documentary fidelity underpins Robert Bresson's rigorous, though accessible, adaptation of Georges Bernanos's novel.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 3, 2014

A work steeped in a profound sense of unfathomability, it's a perfect introduction to Bresson's utterly distinctive cinematic universe.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2013

Mouchette is certainly sombre, but when the characters are finally released from suffering, they do achieve spiritual purity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2013

The exquisite balance of unadorned artistry and emotional intensity that defined Au Hasard Balthazar is less skillfully balanced here.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2012

In "The Tree of Life," Jessica Chastain's character notes that one can go through life in one of two ways - with grace or by nature. If the doomed cleric in "Diary of a Country Priest" was the exemplar of grace, Mouchette represents nature...

| Original Score: A- | Jan 6, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jan 6, 2012

Everyday incidents take on an almost spiritual intensity in Bresson's controlled and incisive direction and handling of the players. Nadine Nortier has the animal ferocity and gentleness needed for the role.

| Mar 26, 2009

Highly acclaimed (with awards from both Cannes and Venice in 1967), Bresson's adaptation of the 1937 Bernanos novel is a sombre study in alienation and quiet despair

| May 30, 2008

At the center of it all is lovely little Nortier, an untrained actress who never made another film, wearing her odd pigtails and giving a heartbreakingly wounded performance.

| Mar 9, 2007

In its brevity and phantasmagoric intensity, Georges Bernanos' Mouchette resembles a fairy tale. Robert Bresson's film adaptation of the novella is something else entirely.

| Jan 22, 2007

To this day, this devastating portrait of an ostracized young girl's bleak emancipation from the society of predators that surrounds her remains one of the most exciting and continually rewarding films I've ever seen.

| Jan 18, 2007

This 81-minute ode is as good an introduction as any to the French director's work. In our M온라인카지노추천 age, Bresson's films stand as a stark reminder of cinema's ascetic aesthetic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 3, 2007

This cruel and unrelenting film is strengthened by a powerful score.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 28, 2006

A magnificent and deeply rewarding example of Bresson's stripped-down methods of cutting and framing, sound and dialogue, performance and movement.

| Jun 24, 2006

An uncompromising psychological drama, presented as a religious parable.

| Original Score: A+ | Mar 14, 2006