Mouchette

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A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

Director
- Robert Bresson
Writers
- Georges Bernanos
- Robert Bresson
Stars

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7.7/10

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Director
- Robert Bresson
Writers
- Georges Bernanos
- Robert Bresson
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 5 wins & 1 nomination total

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Trivia
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 inter-cutting excerpts from it with a written commentary that calls it "Christian and sadistic."

Goofs
(at around 1 min) The canteen changes position after being dropped.

Quotes
Mouchette: [singing] Hope! Hope is dead, Three days, Columbus said to them, Pointing to the vast sky ahead, That stretched beyond the horizon...

Connections
Edited into Bande-annonce de 'Mouchette' (1967)

Soundtracks
Magnificat
Written by Claudio Monteverdi
Performed by Les Chanteurs de St. Eustache
Conducted by R.P. Émile Martin

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Featured review

7/10

Beautiful As Always

Mouchette is a young girl living in the country. Her mother is dying and her father does not take care of her. Mouchette remains silent in the face of the humiliations she undergoes. One night in a wood, she meets Arsene, the village poacher, who thinks he has just killed the local policeman. He tries to use Mouchette to build an alibi.

Robert Bresson knows how to make anything look beautiful. I always feel that black and white captures a scene better than color ever will, especially if the director (or cinematographer) knows how to really use the light and shadow Bresson gets it, and has always gotten it. He also seems to know ho to use children without exploiting them or making them overly sympathetic characters. The character of Mouchette is in many ways the queen of her own world... even if it may not be the best world.