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Mouchette (1967)

Drama | 78 minutes
3,58 150 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 78 minuten

Country: France

Directed by: Robert Bresson

Stars: Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert and Marie Cardinal

IMDb score: 7,7 (13.935)

Releasedate: 28 March 1967

Mouchette plot

Mouchette is a young teenage girl who lives under difficult circumstances. Her mother is dying and her father does not care about her. Unfortunately, she is unable to resist the humiliation she undergoes. One evening she meets Arsène in the forest. He is convinced that he has just killed the local policeman and tries to obtain an alibi with Mouchette.

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Ferdydurke

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With Mouchette, Bresson seems to resume the theme of Au Hasard Balthasar, but here the cross rests entirely on the shoulders of the fourteen-year-old title heroine. She is the abused, hunted and captured animal, whose snare is tightened ever more tightly.

Another difference here, perhaps, is the lack of a truly criminal scoundrel as a catalyst; it is the accumulation of harsh circumstances and humiliations, which Mouchette endures alternately with resignation, with silent tears, or at most with a hasty, almost whispering hostile reaction - which are given a deep emotional tension by Mouchette's ability to give and receive humanity and love, demonstrated again and again in vain. It will be above all the snapping of this bud, and the misunderstanding and lack of response to it, that ultimately drives her to the water.

Such a story can easily become a sentimental melodrama, but with his anti-theatrical approach, focusing on the essence, Bresson manages to stay far away from that. What happens here remains literally unspoken, but the combination of elements (the hunting, the double rivalry between gamekeeper and poacher, what happens around the two fairground attractions, the ambiguous meeting between Mouchette and Arsène) leads to a web of associations, as Ik Doe Moeilijk already indicated above, in which that which is unspoken comes to the fore all the better.

Beautiful in its simplicity is the scene in the bumper cars, where Mouchette's smile changes her from an introverted, shy and frowning child into an attractive, playful young woman. For a while. Together with the moments when she sings Columbus' song about hope, the scene where she feeds her little brother, and her vain attempts to contact her dying mother, it makes her a monument to life nipped in the bud.

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Movsin

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Robert Bresson's films are characterized by simplicity, naturalness, precision and realism.
This "Mouchette" is also a moving story about a teenage girl who goes through an extremely difficult and painful childhood, becomes very bitter and therefore generally behaves very rudely and aloof. A form of relaxation is not granted to her and she also gets entangled in a rivalry between two adult men.
Several beautiful scenes à la Bresson, but the most gripping in my opinion is the one when Mouchette, deeply emotional about what happened that night, comes home and immediately experiences the sad state of her family life and nevertheless behaves incredibly bravely. Magnificent interpretation.
A sad film with an inevitable dramatic ending when Mouchette ultimately sees no way out. Heartbreaking.

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mjk87 (moderator films)

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Typical Bresson as far as I know him. Not bad but very bare, kind of raw and especially very cold and distant. There is quite a bit of misery but it did very little for me because of the direction. On a rational level I still see a good film here but on an emotional level I found even those meager 80 minutes on the long side. 2.5*.

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