Mouchette - Criterion Collection

Mouchette - Criterion Collection
by Robert Bresson, Theodor Kotulla

Mouchette - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Jean-Claude Guilbert, Marie Cardinal, Nadine Nortier, Paul Hebert, Robert Bresson
Director: Robert Bresson, Theodor Kotulla
Brand: IMAGE ENT.
Writer: Robert Bresson
Cinematographer: Ghislain Cloquet
Editor: Raymond Lamy
Producer: Anatole Dauman
Writer: Georges Bernanos
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 81 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Product features:
  • 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

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Movie Review: Mouchette....
Summary: 3 Stars

I love Bresson's films! Let's get that out of the way please.

I appreciate his vague sentimentality that he projects in his work.

I consider Mouchette to be his weakest effort mainly due to my personal taste I guess. I don't think this is a bad film per say. I just couldn't connect to it as much as I wanted to! I didn't feel overtly bad for Mouchette everytime something bad happened to her. All I could say in those instances was "oh that sucks" and then move on. I felt her tears were of those of crocodiles. I simply didn't get the whole empathy people have for Mouchette based on the many reviews I read.
I understand that Bresson used amateur actors and perhaps that was the problem for me. Perhaps! I could appreciate non-actors like in the films of Carlos Reygadas. But for some reason I couldn't feel the same way about this one from Bresson.


Oh well, this proves that even with your favorite movie director there will always be one or two films that you just can't get into for whatever reason.
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Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 01/16/2007
Perhaps the most accessible of Robert Bresson's films, this story of a 14-year-old schoolgirl at the mercy of the world around her is like a melodrama stripped of flourish. Mouchette is an angry adolescent in the French provinces, the daughter of a drunken bootlegger and a dying, bedridden mother, a pariah in school and a figure of village gossip. She rebels in typically adolescent ways, lobbing mud at teasing classmates and defying wagging tongues with a willful stare, but her deep pain and loneliness pour from her hollow, sad eyes. There's no sentimentality in Bresson's portrait of village life, but for a few brief moments the film explodes with energy and emotion. Mouchette rides the bumper cars at a local fair, flirting with a young boy in loving bumps and deliberate rams, and her dour expression flowers in a smile as the fairground speakers blare a rock & roll tune... until her father's heavy hand slaps her back to reality. It's a moment unlike any other in a Bresson film, a joyous reprieve from the monotony of her life, but if the rest of her existence is glum and hopeless, the film is unexpectedly beautiful. The style is often fragmented--the film opens on a stunning play of hands, feet, and spying eyes as poacher and police both wait for their prey--but the beauty of the forests and meadows creates an idyllic naturalism that leavens Bresson's harsh portrait of the human condition. --Sean Axmaker

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