Mouchette Review
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. Based on Georges Bernanos' novel, the film's grim portrayal of a displaced young girl prompted criticism as too bleak, especially compared to the French New Wave films of the era. Like Bresson's other masterpieces, A_Man_Escaped and Pickpocket, Mouchette is serious, aesthetic cinema at its most interesting and human. Bresson had worked from a Bernanos novel before, with his international breakthrough Diary of a Country Priest. Brendon Hanley, Rovi
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