Au hasard Balthazar (DVD) / Argos Films, Parc Film, Athos Films ; Institut Suédois du Film ; Svensk Filmindustri présentent ; de Robert Bresson ; producteur délégué, Mag Bodard.
Edition:
DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (10 unnumbered pages illustrations ; 19 cm)
Originally released as a motion picture in 1966. Wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio). "Restored in 2014 from the original 35 mm negative by the Éclair Group and L.E. Diapason"--English subtitles for sequence before main title. Special features: New 4K digital restoration; interview from 2004 with film scholar Donald Richie; "Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson", a 1966 French television program about the film, featuring dirctor Robert Bresson, filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Louis Malle, and members of Auhasard Balthazar's cast and crew; trailer; plus, an essay by film scholar James Quandt [in insert]. Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Philippe Asselin, Nathalie Joyaut, Jean-Joël Barbier, Jean Rémingnard, Walter Green, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Pierre Klossowsky, Marie-Claire Frémont, Guy Renault, Guy Brejac.
Summary:
"A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema ... follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson's unconventional approach to composition, sound, and narrative, this simple story becomes a moving parable about purity and transcendence."--Container.
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