Robert Bresson's Mouchette
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This is a film fave of one of my best cyber friends, and is one of Bresson's finest achievements, along with Au hasard Balthazar, this I feel tells an important International Women's Day story, how hellish it can be to be female in a male world, we see a young lady's joyless life working for her uncaring folks, taunted cruelly by her classmates, and the one guy who treats her like a human being is some kind of criminal, when all's said and done, her way out is shown with a haunting snippet of Monteverdi music.
For more Bresson I feel is worth checking out:
Pickpocket is my personal favorite, loosely based on Crime and Punishment.
Diary of a Country Priest which our (rest in peace) Anglican British friend said was too devoid of humor.
and L'Argent -- his final feature, based on a Tolstoy story about how money passes through different hands and the havoc it draws when a bill isn't legal tender.
This is a film fave of one of my best cyber friends, and is one of Bresson's finest achievements, along with Au hasard Balthazar, this I feel tells an important International Women's Day story, how hellish it can be to be female in a male world, we see a young lady's joyless life working for her uncaring folks, taunted cruelly by her classmates, and the one guy who treats her like a human being is some kind of criminal, when all's said and done, her way out is shown with a haunting snippet of Monteverdi music.
For more Bresson I feel is worth checking out:
Pickpocket is my personal favorite, loosely based on Crime and Punishment.
Diary of a Country Priest which our (rest in peace) Anglican British friend said was too devoid of humor.
and L'Argent -- his final feature, based on a Tolstoy story about how money passes through different hands and the havoc it draws when a bill isn't legal tender.
46-50, M