Au Hasard Balthazar (Blu-ray)

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

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User Ratings: 6,949
No film I have ever seen has come so close to convulsing my entire being as has Au Hasard Balthazar. Full Review
Observer
Nov 15, 2007
[A] masterpiece...
Film Comment
Jul 1, 2005
The film could have sunk beneath this symbolic burden, yet it is lightened by the speed and precision of Bresson's art; he could derive more from one pair of hands than most directors can from two hours of blood and guts. Full Review
New Yorker
Mar 5, 2013
Rating: 5/5 -- Bresson slowly transmits that it is Balthazar's example of loyalty, sustenance and grace that is noble and permanent - not the transient agendas of the people around him. Full Review
Patrick Nabarro
Dec 19, 2018
Rating: A -- If one were looking for a perfectly realized film, Au Hasard Balthazar would be as likely a candidate as any. Full Review
AV Club
Nov 22, 2016
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
The film is perhaps the director's most perfectly realised, and certainly his most moving. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006

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: 65,958
  • UPC: 715515215510
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