Mouchette
Robert Bresson 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.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2006 by film scholar, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
- Au hasard Bresson (1967), a documentary by Theodor Kotulla, featuring director Robert Bresson on the set of Mouchette
- Segment of a 1967 episode of the French television series Cinéma, featuring on-set interviews with Bresson and actors Nadine Nortier and Jean-Claude Guilbert
- Original theatrical trailer, cut by Jean-Luc Godard
- PLUS: An essay by critic and poet Robert Polito
Cover by Sarah Habibi
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2006 by film scholar, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
- Au hasard Bresson (1967), a documentary by Theodor Kotulla, featuring director Robert Bresson on the set of Mouchette
- Segment of a 1967 episode of the French television series Cinéma, featuring on-set interviews with Bresson and actors Nadine Nortier and Jean-Claude Guilbert
- Original theatrical trailer, cut by Jean-Luc Godard
- PLUS: An essay by critic and poet Robert Polito
Cover by Sarah Habibi
Cast
- Nadine Nortier
- Mouchette
- Jean-Claude Guilbert
- Arsène
- Marie Cardinal
- Mother
- Paul Hebert
- Father
- Jean Vimenet
- Mathieu
- Marie Susini
- Mathieu’s wife
- Suzanne Huguenin
- Layer-out of the dead
- Marine Trichet
- Louisa
- Raymonde Chabrun
- Grocer
Credits
- Director
- Robert Bresson
- Producer
- Anatole Dauman
- Screenplay
- Robert Bresson
- Based upon the novel by
- Georges Bernanos
- Director of photography
- Ghislain Cloquet
- Editor
- Raymond Lamy
- Set designer
- Pierre Guffroy
- Original music by
- Jean Wiener
- “Magnificat” by
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Conductor
- R. P. Émile Martin
- Costume designer
- Odette Le Barbenchon
- Production manager
- Michel Choquet
- Production manager
- Philippe Dussart
- Production manager
- René Pascal
- Assistant director
- Jacques Kébadian
- Assistant director
- Mylène Van der Mersch
- Prop master
- Jean Catala
- Sound
- Jacques Carrère
- Sound
- Daniel Couteau
- Sound
- Séverin Frankiel
- Assistant cameraman
- Emmanuel Machuel
- Assistant cameraman
- Paul Bonis
- Camera operator
- Jean Chiabaut
- Assistant editor
- Arlette Lalande
- Script supervisor
- Françoise Renberg
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