Au hasard Balthazar
Door Robert Bresson
1966 | 92 min | Klassiekers
The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette. Robert Bresson's acclaimed Au Hasard, Balthazar presents an unfettered view of human cruelty, suffering and injustice, filtered through the eyes of a donkey over the course of his long life. The burro at the film's center begins life peacefully and happily, as the unnamed play-object of some innocent children in bucolic France, but his circumstances change dramatically when ...