Balthazar (Au Hasard Balthazar)

Jean-Luc Godard said that Au Hasard Balthazar summed up the world. So what sums up the world? Life, death, happiness, sorrow, luck, injustice, beauty, silence, lonliness, violence, evil, abuse, awful people, good people. The thing is that I was thinking of themes…

Simon

this shrek live action spin-off about donkey was darker than expected.....

Roberto_

If you think that a film about the life of a donkey cannot be moving and take your breath away, watch AU HASARD BALTHAZAR from 1966, and think again. The film by French master Robert Bresson on the topics of violence as well as compassion is one of those films that change…

Wim Wenders

Nope. Me and Bresson didn't click the second time around either. And I know exactly why, which makes it a hundred times more infuriating. I'll try my best not to write in a cynical manner because Jack, I can see why this resonated with you. Bresson paints a parable of…

Lara Pop

***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.*** Before the French New Wave could be formally established, a director named Robert Bresson suddenly appears for the sake of French cinema and starts to consolidate his overwhelmingly unusual direction style, a style that…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

I saw a donkey walk on earth and, for a moment, it was not a donkey, but a reliquary of the suffering of this world. His eyes, big and dark, reflected nothing but mute acceptance, as if he had contemplated the essence of existence and decided to desire nothing. He was…

noen

it used to really offend me that in bressons book he was like actors have to just sit there and have no idea whats happening and then you film them. the second they get ideas you have to find new ones. but with each passing year i am softening into the position that he is…

dylan gelula

There are times when you don't want a "pick-me-up." There are times when you want art that conveys the sadness, cruelty, and just-plain hardship of life. Not "misery porn," but art that shows life the way it is, without sentimentality or melodrama. These are the times for…

Will Sloan

For whatever reason, this film evades me unlike other Bressons. One of his most religiously symbolic. Very complex, always feel like I'm scratching the surface. Maybe one day

Jake