Au hasard Balthazar

Dir. Robert Bresson

France-Sweden 1966 | Black & white | 91 mins | Cert PG

Cast: Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green

A typically Bressonian parable:  poetic, moving, and, despite its cool restraint, visually superb. The mistreatment of a donkey is captured in his daily grind of giving rides, moving agricultural machinery and being beaten or stroked, depending on the mood of the owner of the time. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson’s Mouchette.

Available on: DVD, 35mm