Bresson's "Mouchette:" his most difficult film to

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appreciate.
Yes, the actors were natural as ever (he almost exclusively used amateurs), the cinematography perfect, the dialogue sparse but telling, and the story wrenching.
The problem is that Bresson seemed to go out of his way to make moral deductions murky and, for such a renowned Catholic director, negative. If he was saying human beings are wolves unless something, such as religion, intercedes, it wasn't clearly enough stated: what we're left with is one of the bleakest assessments of humanity on film.
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We see very long sequences of shots of men mercilessly hunting rabbits and then very soon see characters behaving terribly and cruelly to one another. Bresson, in a move more brave than wise, also makes Mouchette a less than admirable character, showing her to have little emotion toward either her failing mother or her infant brother.
I haven't read the Bernanos novel upon which the film is based but, even if it is similarly dark, Bresson chose to film it so.

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Topic - Bresson's "Mouchette:" his most difficult film to - tinear 04:47:40 10/02/07 (3)

RE: Bresson's "Mouchette:" his most difficult film to - tinear 04:57:17 10/02/07 (2)

Perhaps his most difficult film to write about... - Rod H. 08:03:39 10/02/07 (1)

What I'm left with is the incredible strength, against all the - tinear 07:25:40 10/03/07 (0)

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