Mouchette

Dir. Robert Bresson

France 1966 | Black & white | 77 mins | Cert 15

Cast: Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert

Mouchette is a young teenager who is trying to cope with her mother’s imminent death, and her father’s inability to take care of her. Adapted from a novel by Georges Bernanos, Bresson’s film about teenage innocence and cruelty is groundbreaking in its intense purity and simplicity of style.

Available on: 35mm