Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Maria Cardinal, Paul Hebert, Jean Vimenet, Marie Susini, Suzanne Huguenin, Marine Trichet, Raymonde Chabrun. Title from sell sheet. Originally released as a motion picture in 1967. Based on the novel Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette by Georges Bernanos. Wide screen. Special features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Audio commentary from 2006 by film scholar, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns, Au hasard Bresson (1967), a documentary by Theodor Kotulla, featuring director Robert Bresson on the set of Mouchette; Segment of a 1967 episode of the French televison series Cinema, featuring on-set interviews with Bresson and actors Nadine Nortier and Jean-Claude Guilbert; Original theatrical trailer, cut by Jean-Luc Godard.
Summary:
With a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace and respite from her circumstances in the nature of the French countryside and daily routine. Bresson deploys his trademark minimalist style to heartbreaking effect in this essential work of French filmmaking, a hugely empathetic drama that elevates its trapped protagonist into one of the cinema₂s most memorable tragic figures.
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