Au Hasard Balthazar
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- Synopsis
- Robert Bresson's acclaimed Au Hasard, Balthazar presents an unfettered view of human cruelty, suffering and injustice, filtered through the eyes of a donkey over the course of his long life....
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- Starring
- Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green
- Director(s)
- Robert Bresson
- Distributor(s)
- Independent Artists
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 95 min.
Critic Reviews
To see Au Hasard Balthazar is to understand the limits of religious literalism in movies -- the limits, even, of movies themselves. Bresson pares everything away until all that's left are the things we do and the hole left by the things we could have done but didn't. Read the full review
Bresson suggests that we are all Balthazars. Despite our dreams, hopes and best plans, the world will eventually do with us whatever it does.Read the full review
If in Bresson's films nothing ever seems out of place or superfluous it's because he strove to find the essential truth of the image. Not an image or sound is wasted -- or offered up in self-glorification -- and from such seeming simplicity there arises a world of feeling. Read the full review
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