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Au Hasard Balthazar

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1966
1h 36m
French
Drama
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The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
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7.8
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Cast

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Anne Wiazemsky
Walter Green
Franois Lafarge
JeanClaude Guilbert
Philippe Asselin
Marie's Father
Pierre Klossowski
Nathalie Joyaut
Marie's Mother
MarieClaire Fremont
JeanJol Barbier
Directed By: Robert Bresson
Written By: Robert Bresson

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The_Argentinian says...
2 years ago
I see now why Bergman thought it was boring.
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peritas says...
2 years ago
Give that donkey the Oscar, surely the best performance in this snoozefest.
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soonertbone says...
2 years ago
Revoke my film nerd credentials if you want, but I think I hated this movie. Bresson’s style is ascetic to a fault—spare and punishing to no effect. Dialogue that doesn’t follow (did I have bad subtitles?) from one sentence to the next, elliptical editing that obscures key details, and acting techniques that border on zombie-like. The effect is like reading a great novel in which everything but verbs has been redacted—you get the gist of something happening, but you’re left too confused to feel anything. I can understand using the medium in new ways to create a tonal poem, but doing so here failed to produce much of an emotional response on my part.
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drtfx7 says...
3 years ago
A severely simple consideration of the insensate nature of fate, delivered through an elusive tale of a donkey and a girl. The sharp cruelty of the world portrayed is contrasted by a collective spiritless performance to develop a unique and amplified emotion to the narrative. A racking oeuvre of Bresson's masterwork in film.
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CinemaSerf
2 years ago
The novice actor Anne Wiazemsky is really effective as "Marie", a young woman who has shared most of her life with her donkey "Baltahzar". Initially her childhood pet, this creature has spent much of his life as the victim of inhumane treatment at the hands of subsequent owners - including her rathe More
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37poop
6 years ago
Devastating. Crazy to see Adele Exarchopoulos so young. You'll never hear the sound of a donkey braying the same way again
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