Mouchette - The Criterion Collection

ROBERT BRESSON (Au hasard Balthazar) plumbs great reservoirs of feeling with Mouchette, one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film. With a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace and respite from her circumstances in the nature of the French countryside and daily routine. Bresson deploys his trademark minimalist style to heartbreaking effect in this essential work of French filmmaking, a hugely empathetic drama that elevates its trapped protagonist into one of the cinema's most memorable tragic figures.Special Features:New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackAudio commentary from 2006 by film scholar, critic, and festival programmer Tony RaynsAu hasard Bresson, a 1967 documentary by Theodor Kotulla, featuring director Robert Bresson on the set of MouchetteSegment of a 1967 episode of the French television series Cinéma, featuring on-set interviews with Bresson and actors Nadine Nortier and Jean-Claude GuilbertOriginal theatrical trailer, cut by Jean-Luc GodardPLUS: An essay by critic and poet Robert Polito