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Mouchette

Mouchette

1967, Movie, 1h 21min

Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feeling with MOUCHETTE, one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film. Faced with a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace in nature and daily routine, a respite from her economic and pubescent turmoil. An essential work of French filmmaking, Bresson’s hugely empathetic drama elevates its trapped protagonist into one of the cinema’s great tragic figures.

Country: France

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Jean-Claude Guilbert,

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8

Here he [director Robert Bresson] focuses on the miserable existence of a teenage peasant girl, capturing moods rather than relating plot.

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Michael Thomsen

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6

Endnu en Bresson film jeg ikke helt syntes var et mesterværk. "En dødsdømt Flygter" er bedre, DEN kan jeg anbefale.

4 years ago

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