Mouchette - Criterion Collection
by Robert Bresson, Theodor Kotulla
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Actor: Jean-Claude Guilbert, Marie Cardinal, Nadine Nortier, Paul Hebert, Robert BressonDirector: Robert Bresson, Theodor Kotulla
Brand: Image Entertainment
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-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 81 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Mouchette - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Self-indulgent for the cast and crew
Summary: 3 Stars
There is nothing in this movie that will entertain you. Students of cinema rejoice. You can observe fine acting, fine directing and fine cinamatography but you will not be distracted by the story. 5 stars for performances, etc; 1 star for the telling of a foreboding story of despair and 0 stars for entertainment. I typcally appreciate Bresson and seem to understand the movies...not Mouchette. Maybe the trailer said it all..."a colour movie; in colours of black and in colours of white".
Summary of Mouchette - Criterion Collection
Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 01/16/2007Perhaps 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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