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Mouchette (1967) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2.4 Import - Australia ]

Format: Blu-ray
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
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  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.93 ounces
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07G1ZS32W
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars A grim, moving and superb film
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2000
I'd seen a bunch of Bresson films before I ever heard of Mouchette, and had always regarded him as the director who, while I wouldn't necessarily want to watch his films to the exclusion of anyone else's, speaks to what's best in me; Bresson's work has an uncompromising directness that no other film-maker has ever matched, in my experience. Watching his films, you feel that something is being imparted to you that you needed to know; in this respect, he's utterly unlike the vast majority of directors, who seek merely to provide diversion and laffs. His influence on Scorsese, Fassbinder and Kaurismaki is undeniable, and Paul Schrader has blatantly ripped him off on more than one occasion (though we forgive Schrader because he is himself such a good director).
Mouchette is not the most famous of Bresson's films but it's one of the best I've seen - though admittedly this is misleading, as most of Bresson's films after the late 40s are masterpieces. Mouchette's life is almost unrelentingly awful; her mother is dying, and most of her verbal contact with Mouchette consists of orders to look after the baby and get her some more gin; her father takes whatever money she earns, and her brother never says anything at all. She lives in a grotty village in a totally unattractive-looking part of Provence, where the local boys have nothing better to do than drop their pants in her direction, and where her sole recreation is throwing mud at her schoolmates. Nadine Nortier, one of a string of non-professional actors to be burdened with carrying a Bresson movie, is stunning as the teenaged Mouchette. Few cinematic leading ladies have been so utterly unglamorous. Her hair is straggly and greasy-looking, her clothes are outsized hand-me-downs and her shoes are enormous clogs that clack loudly as she walks, yet Nortier never loses contact with Mouchette's livid anger and spiritual dignity. When professional actresses cry, they tend to crease up their faces and emote; Nortier stares blankly into the middle distance as the tears stream down her face.
Mouchette is an extraordinary film, not one to be watched as part of a night of videos, unless the other videos also happen to be directed by Bresson. It's one of Bresson's most unrelentingly sombre films, but the outcome, although tragic, is not nihilistic (as, arguably, was the director's later study of disaffected youth, "Le Diable probablement"). Not a feelgood movie, but by no means a nothing-means-anything movie, either, which is a considerable achievement by anyone's standards, and by the standards of contemporary movies, an outright miracle.
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5.0 out of 5 stars from Shirley Jackson to Jim Thompson
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2003
The first scene is of a bird caught in a snare fluttering madly to escape, then a hand rescues the bird and lets it free.
Bresson depicts the utter malice than can lay behind a rural community to the abject meanness of poverty.

Asked to sing along in school, her voice was pretty until she hit the high notes and then she was ostracized by her teacher. What was there ever in her life to sing about? Altho at home, doing her chores her voice shines with sweetness

And her only moment of joy on the amusement park car flirting with possibly the only smile in her life, taken away in exchange for a night with a poacher.

It's amazing how her everyday face is a frown, except when she is tending to her dying mother when her face is beautifically transformed to absolute love and adoration.

And I don't believe Bresson asks you to feel sorry for her. He is just showing us.
Mouchette finally needs to confess something to her mother, possibly the only time she has asked for help or advice but at that moment , her mother dies.
That day, an old lady in town gives mouchette a shroud for her mother and a beautiful dress, the kind you might wear to confirmation or a baptism. She has had only had tattered rags and ill fitting clunky shoes all her life.
Altho my description may sound melodramatic, the movie is not.It doesn't try to play on your emotions.
The last scene is haunting and unforgettable.
This is a most beautiful movie.
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Hiram Gòmez Pardo Venezuela
5.0 out of 5 stars A giant movie !
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2004
Robert Bresson is one my top favorite directors . And this work is one of the best achievements in his brief but remarkable filmography .
Mouchette is simply one of the most powerful films ever made . After you have watched the last shot , you will convince by yourself we are not in the better of the possible worlds.
The story turns around Mouchette a child without love an emotional orphan , her little story and brief stage in this world is a brutal and penetrating reflection about us and our little miseries .
The Bresson camera is pure poetry . The triviality in the simple fact to serve sugar in a cup over and over talks by itself . The trivialty , the absurdity in the attraction park , and the terible events in which Mouchette is involved become in a perpetual deja vu for the listener .
As you know so well , Bresson is very austere in the verbal codes . He prefers the images become in the real actor , that's why many times the audience is serioulsy disturbed due there are several sequences entirely mude . Bresson is more worried in the powerful and expressive visual force working out as a silent witeness . His camera is a merciless eye but also a fascinating traveler guide who accompanies us in the mythical journey employing the simple reality but that is Bresson's genius touch ; he makes a simple image acquires an epic or tragic dimension and that artistic triumph is done with a clear resource economy.
This winner film in Cannes is another jewel of the master of masters : Robert Bresson!
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Nathan J. Cunningham
5.0 out of 5 stars best movie
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2001
i've only watched it twice but so many moments are burned into my memory forever. it's something ineffable in the tilt of every shot, the slow, predestined precision of every movement of the figures ('actors' is not the right word for a bresson movie), the supernatural evocativeness of every facial expression, the densely but subtly arranged, teasing interplay of sound and image that builds up through the whole film until both sound and image come to an end in the only suicide on film that is truly a miracle. each moment is an icon painted on slate and clearly visible only by the light of a candle in its own chamber in a dark and infinite church to which my mind will always have access though i'll never know the way there.
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Luc REYNAERT
5.0 out of 5 stars L'humiliation des innocents
Reviewed in France on April 23, 2016
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Ce film, basé sur le roman de G. Bernanos, est un portrait bouleversant d’une exclue de la communauté humaine. La famille de Mouchette est très pauvre. Sa mère est malade et son père parvient à peine de survivre grâce à de la contrebande d’alcool et du braconnage. Elle est mal habillée et pas soignée, un véritable oiseau bariolé. Elle est continuellement humiliée et insultée par d’autres gosses et par ceux et celles qui exercent un certain pouvoir dans le village, comme l’institutrice ou la bourgeoisie soi-disant chrétienne.
Pourtant, elle est l’incarnation de vertus chrétiennes comme la pauvreté et l’innocence. La pureté de ses sentiments est admirablement illustrée dans la séquence de la kermesse avec ses autos-tamponneuses.

Dans son récit ‘Cet Eté-là’, Marie Cardinal (qui joue la mère dans ce film) brosse un portrait de Bresson, qui est loin d'être hagiographique : un homme insupportable, inhumain et cafouilleux. Néanmoins, dans son style sobre, (apparemment) sans passion et loin des grands gestes théâtraux, Robert Bresson a créé un chef-d’œuvre saisissant. Il stigmatise d’une manière féroce la communauté humaine, qui bafoue et conspue sans la moindre pitié les démunis.
A voir absolument.
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starlightspacelab
5.0 out of 5 stars For anyone who has been without central heating in their soul
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2013
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First of all things i could not have said it crystally clear as Budge Burgess did here and moreover i have been nagging about the 3rd or 4th postponement by Artificial Eye of the BD versions of Mouchette and Au Hasard Balthasar however could not wait any longer to see these films and have now just seen Mouchette which tears your heart apart, it cuts through the strings of your heart, it is a jawdropping movie, it is a masterpiece. This is my first Bresson and now i want to see every film of him. His name felt for the first time when i read about Tarkovsky's quote I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman unquote and so being a huge Tarkovsky and Bergman addict i had to find out about Bresson. I will not describe the plot here because this was already beautifully done by Budge Burgess. This movie is highest possible recommendation for anyone who has been without central heating in their soul once in a while.
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Room for a View
5.0 out of 5 stars Leave the last dance for me!!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2009
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Bresson does it again and hurls his principle character from one nihilistic catastrophe to another. This time instead of a donkey the viewer is offered an adolescent girl. The consequences for this principle character are the same, however, and Bresson shows how human cruelty, loveless relationships, peer group pressure, hateful gossip and thoughtless prejudice converge to infect the life of a vulnerable child. As in most Bresson films the lack of overt dramatic devices and the austere acting produces, for me at least, an emotional response that seems to transcend the visual imagery and jaundiced dialogue. For instance Mouchette's encounter with the poacher is both tense and ambiguous and the ending is like being hit from behind with a baseball bat. Astounding.
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Dela
5.0 out of 5 stars One not to miss
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2015
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A great film by the director Andre Bresson in glorious black and white. It,s totally engrossing and the ending is amazing. And in Blu ray its suberb.
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Petermac
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 27, 2018
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