Mouchette

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Awards

Cannes Film Festival 1967 - Nominated - Palme d'Or

Cannes Film Festival 1967 - Won - OCIC Award

French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Awards 1968 - Won - Best Film

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Awards 1969 - Won - Best Foreign Film Director

Cannes Film Festival 1967 - Nominated - Palme d'Or

Cannes Film Festival 1967 - Won - OCIC Award

French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Awards 1968 - Won - Best Film

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Awards 1969 - Won - Best Foreign Film Director

Venice Film Festival 1967 - Won - Best Film

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Mouchette

Director:
Robert Bresson
81 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

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.

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Details

Runtime:
81 min.

Country:
FRANCE

Language:
French

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • Audio commentary by renowned film scholar, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
  • Au hasard Bresson, a half - hour documentary about the director, including behind - the - scenes footage of Robert Bresson directing Mouchette
  • "Traveling," a segment from the cine - magazine TV series Cinema, featuring on - set interviews with Bresson and actors Nadine Nortier and Jean - Claude Guilbert
  • Original theatrical trailer, cut by Jean - Luc Godard
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • Plus: A new essay by writer Robert Polito

 

 

 

Cast & Crew

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Directed by
Robert Bresson

Produced by
natole Dauman

Writing credits
Robert Bresson

Cast

Jean Vimenet
Marie Susini
Nadine Nortier
Paul Hebert
Maria Cardinal

 

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