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Robert Bresson: Mouchette
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In 1969, the aging Bresson made his first color film. Une femme douce (A Gentle Creature) was based on a story by Dostoyevsky and featured future French star Dominique Sanda - then a 17-year-old unknown - in its lead role of a struggling young woman who marries a pawnbroker but finds herself bitterly unhappy. Bresson did not back down in the face of criticism, for this film, like Mouchette, ends with a suicide. Bresson followed that film up with another Dostoyevsky adaptation, Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (Four Nights of a Dreamer) in 1971, one of the director's rare love stories.
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The only extras the disc contains are a poorly presented picture gallery and a Bresson filmography. Disappointing hardly sums it up when you consider the amount of documentary and other material on the director available from the period during and after the film’s production. The transfer and subtitling are excellent, but one would like more, especially as the film runs a mere 78 minutes. Still, in that 78 minutes, you can find some of the most compassionate moments in Bresson’s films. The misery and sullen resentment of all the world is only redeemed, perhaps, by the devotion of Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) to her dying mother. Her sense of estrangement remains as compelling as when the film first shocked audiences.
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There is a scene in The Dreamers, where three young and besotted cinephiles (including the especially dreamy Eva Green) watch Robert Bresson's 1967 Mouchette. Bertolucci tempts his audience with one brief, captivating shot, a young girl rolling down a rocky hill. Turns out, this is the film's tragic end.
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