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Mouchette

Mouchette (USA)

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Director:
Release:
1967 March, 14
Country:
France
Runtime:
78 minutes
Genre:
Drama
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Perhaps the most accessible of Robert Bresson's films, this story of a 14-year-old schoolgirl at the mercy of the world around her is like a melodrama stripped of flourish. Mouchette is an angry adolescent in the French provinces, the daughter of a drunken bootlegger and a dying, bedridden mother, a pariah in school and a figure of village gossip. She rebels in typically adolescent ways, lobbing mud at teasing classmates and defying wagging tongues with a wilful stare, but her deep pain and loneliness pour from her hollow, sad eyes. There's no sentimentality in Bresson's portrait of village life but for a few brief moments the film explodes with energy and emotion. Mouchette rides the bumper cars at a local fair, flirting with a young boy in loving bumps and deliberate rams, and her dour expression flowers in a smile as the fairground speakers blare a rock & roll tune... until her father's heavy hand slaps her back to reality. It's a moment unlike any other in a Bresson film, a joyous reprieve from the monotony of her life, but if the rest of her existence is glum and hopeless, the film is unexpectedly beautiful. The style is often fragmented--the film opens on a stunning play of hands, feet and spying eyes as poacher and police both wait for their prey--but the beauty of the forests and meadows creates an idyllic naturalism that leavens Bresson's harsh portrait of the human condition. - Sean Axmaker

Мушетт - девочка-подросток из бедного квартала, или какого-то предместья, живет вместе с пьющими отцом и братом, умирающей матерью и десятимесячным младенцем в покосившейся лачуге, ходит в обносках, неохотно посещает школу, выполняет тяжелую домашнюю работу и ненавидит весь Божий мир. Единственный человек, которого она выделяет из всех окружающих, - сосед-охотник, немытый, заросший щетиной эпилептик, конфронтирующий с другим соседом-охотником, особенно неприятным Мушетт. С ним-то, эпилептиком, проводит девочка единственную в своей короткой жизни ночь любви.

Amor e Morte Portugal
Mouchette Turkey
Mouchette USA
Mouchette West Germany
Mouchette Argentina
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Mouchette Canada
Mouchette Canada
Mouchette Spain
Mouchette France
Mouchette United Kingdom
Mouchette Hungary
Mouchette Mexico
Mouchette Sweden
Mouchette - den våldtagna Sweden
Mouchette - den voldtagne Denmark
Mouchette - raiskattu Finland
Mouchette, a Virgem Possuída Brazil
Mouchette: Tutta la vita in una notte Italy
Muset (literal title) Yugoslavia
Muška Czechoslovakia
Muška Slovakia
Μουσέτ (reissue title) Greece
Мушет Bulgaria
Мушетт Soviet Union
Мушетт (new title) Ukraine
少女ムシェット Japan

Children's Cast:

Nadine Nortier [19] Mouchette

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