Part of the BAMcinématek series Bresson
Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 6:50, 9:15pm
Directed by Robert Bresson
With Nadine Nortier
(1967) 78min, 35mm
Bresson produced one of his most indelible protagonists in 14-year-old Mouchette (a perpetually scowling and deeply affecting Nortier), who comes of age in a remote village, enduring mistreatment at the hands of her alcoholic father and tending to her bedridden mother. Bresson transforms the hardscrabble existence of a teenage girl into a profoundly spiritual portrait of eternal outsiderhood. The remarkable and unusually kinetic bumper car sequence is one of the most unforgettable passages in the director’s oeuvre.
