Au Hasard Balthazar

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  • Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 29, 2018
  • Originally Released: 2018
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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User Ratings: 6,949
The movie plays like a concerto. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Oct 11, 2019
[A] remarkably compressed tragedy...
Premiere
Sep 1, 2005
Perhaps the greatest and most revolutionary of Bresson's films, Balthazar is a difficult but transcendently rewarding experience, never to be missed. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Apr 27, 2009
Rating: 5/5 -- One of the great masterpieces of world cinema: austere, warm, grim, surreal, shocking and heartbreaking. Full Review
Radio Times
Jun 3, 2014
[A] masterpiece...
Film Comment
Jul 1, 2005
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
Jun 24, 2005
A film that despite its obvious religious overtones is much more about the hell of relationships based on commodities rather than sin. Full Review
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Jan 30, 2015

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
  • Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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