Mouchette (1967)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.9/10   

Director:

Robert Bresson

Escritores:

Georges Bernanos (novel) and
Robert Bresson (scenario & adaptation and dialogue)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

12 marzo 1970 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

Mouchette is a young teenager living in the tough country. Her mother is going to die, and her father does not take care of her...

Plot Keywords:

Poacher | Woods | Humiliation | Girl | Police Officer Killed

Premios:

4 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A genius at his most beautiful

Reparto

Nadine Nortier	...	Mouchette
Jean-Claude Guilbert	...	Arsène
Marie Cardinal	...	Mouchette's Mother
Paul Hebert	...	Mouchette's Father
Jean Vimenet	...	Mathieu
Marie Susini	...	Mathieu's wife
Liliane Princet	...	Schoolteacher
Suzanne Huguenin	...	Undertaker
Marine Trichet	...	Luisa
Raymonde Chabrun	...	Grocery Shop-owner

Duración:

78 min | USA:90 min (VHS version) | Portugal:82 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

UK:15 | West Germany:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | Argentina:16

Compañía:

Argos Films

Trivialidades:

It was rumored for years that the trailer for this film was by Jean-Luc Godard, and he has recently confirmed this by programming it in a self-curated retrospective of his work. The trailer is virtually a miniature essay on (or subversion of) the film, jarringly intercutting excerpts from it with a written commentary that calls it "Christian and sadistic".

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in De weg naar Bresson (1984)

Banda de Sonido:

Magnificat

A genius at his most beautiful

Never before has cinema been this simple and honest. No one makes films with more emotion than Bresson and no one puts less emotion in their films than he. I could cite so many Bressonian cliches and talk of his uniquely personal style which by 1967 was firmly established, especially since he had abandoned the voice-over he used in the 50s. I will point out his use of sound and approach to acting which remain so distinctive and by now so familiar. There is nothing in Mouchette that is new, especially after Balthazar, what remains is the story of Mouchette, told with the utter grace and passion that makes this film a masterpiece that transcends technique, even cinema itself, and makes most cinema look frivolous in the process.

Finally I must mention the films ending, which I rank with that of Balthazar as the most beautiful I have seen.