Au Hasard Balthazar
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 29, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anne Wiazemsky & Philippe Asselin | |
Performer: | Jean-Claude Guilbert | |
Directed by | Robert Bresson | |
Edited by | Raymond Lamy | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Bresson | |
Composition by | Jean Wiener | |
Produced by | Mag Bodard | |
Director of Photography: | Ghislain Cloquet |
Entertainment Reviews:
The movie plays like a concerto.
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Chicago Reader
[A] remarkably compressed tragedy...
Premiere
Perhaps the greatest and most revolutionary of Bresson's films, Balthazar is a difficult but transcendently rewarding experience, never to be missed.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 5/5 --
One of the great masterpieces of world cinema: austere, warm, grim, surreal, shocking and heartbreaking.
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Radio Times
[A] masterpiece...
Film Comment
Human frailty as seen through the eyes of a noble donkey, and France's Robert Bresson makes you believe every second of it.
USA Today
A film that despite its obvious religious overtones is much more about the hell of relationships based on commodities rather than sin.
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Product Description:
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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- Sales Rank: 67,329
- UPC: 715515215619
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