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Mouchette
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NR,1hr 20min
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October 14, 2005
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Rialto Pictures
Synopsis: Robert Bresson directed this grim but moving story of a girl forced to grow up quickly due to the unfortunate circumstances which surround her. Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) is a fourteen year old girl living in a rural village in France; while it's the mid-1960's, in many respects her community looks as if it could still be World War II, or even the turn of the century, and a number of the men earn their living though poaching game. Mouchette's mother (Marie Cardinal) is slowly dying of an incurable ... Full Synopsis
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Since his first feature film, 1943's Angels of the Streets, writer-director Robert Bresson specialized in making challenging, somber meditations on spiritual crises. Influenced by the work of Carl Theodor Dreyer (most obviously, The Passion of Joan of Arc), Bresson utilized amateur actors and a sparse visual approach. One of his most controversial, complex deliberations on life was 1967's Mouchette. ... Full Review
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