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Au Hasard Balthazar, 1966

Starring: Anne Wiazemsky, Philippe Asselin

Directed by: Robert Bresson

Written by: Robert Bresson

Language: French

Country: France, Sweden

Runtime: 95 min

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Rating:7.9

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The mood of Au Hasard Balthazar is contemplative, stylized, and touching. The plot centers around animal life, injustice, and human nature. It is a drama and foreign movie. In approach, Au Hasard Balthazar is serious. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in the countryside. Au Hasard Balthazar is set in France. It happens in the 1960s. Visually, it is black and white. Au Hasard Balthazar is known for being a masterpiece, an award winner, and critically acclaimed.

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Often praised as one of the greatest films ever made, but long unavailable in the United States, AU HASARD BALTHAZAR is suffused with the same religious imagery and themes that mark much of director Robert Bresson's films. Like his masterpiece DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST, Bresson's AU HASARD BALTHAZAR combines religious allegory with a naturalistic, austere, and minimalist aesthetic style that matches his ascetic themes. The film tells the story of Marie, an unlucky farm girl, and her beloved donkey Balthazar. As Marie grows up, the pair become separated, but the film traces both their fates as they continue to live a parallel existence. Marie and Balthazar become martyrs, eventually taking the sins of others upon their own heads and finding transcendence in the process. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR is like Bresson's other works in that it seamlessly combines the naturalistic and the spiritual.

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Language:	French
Country:	France, Sweden
Release date:	19 February 1970
Runtime:	95 min

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Anne Wiazemsky

as Marie

Philippe Asselin

as Marie's father

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This great film, made with uncompromising honesty and devastating reality, is, according to Jean-Luc Godard, "the world in an hour and a half." Full Review

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by: Staff (Not credited)

Los Angeles Times

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... Full Review

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by: Manohla Dargis

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Simple to summarize, difficult to cognize, Robert Bresson's heartbreaking "Au Hasard Balthazar" is one of the most emotionally moving pictures ever made. Though Bresson gives us a myriad to think about, he never values one idea over another. It is... Read and rate it

17.June.2009
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j7m7f7 rated this movie10/10Must See

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