Mouchette [Criterion Collection]

Director: Robert Bresson

Overview

"Robert Bresson directed this bleak tale of a fourteen-year-old girl growing up under horrific circumstances, which has been given a splendid presentation on DVD from the Criterion Collection. Mouchette has been transferred to disc in widescreen format; t

Product Details

Release Date:	01/16/2007
UPC:	0715515021425
Original Release:	1967
Source:	CRITERION
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:21:00
Sales rank:	50,332

Special Features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer; Audio commentary by renowned film scholar, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns; Au Hasard Bresson, a half-hour documentary about the director, including behind-the-scenes footage of Robert Bresson directing Mouchette; "Travelling," a segment from the cine-magazine TV series Cin?ma, featuring on-set interviews with Bresson and actors Nadine Nortier and Jean-Claude Guilbert; Original theatrical trailer, cut by Jean-Luc Godard; New and improved English subtitle translation; Plus: A new essay by writer Robert Polito

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Nadine Nortier	Mouchette
Jean-Claude Guilbert	Arsene
Marie Cardinal	Actor,Mother
Jean Vimenet	Mathieu - gamekeeper
Marie Susini	Mathieu's wife
Liliane Princet	Schoolteacher
Raymonde Chabrun	Grocery Shop-owner
Suzanne Huguenin	Undertaker
Marie Trichet	Actor
Robert Bresson	Actor
Paul H?bert	Mouchette's Father
Paul Hebert	Actor
Jean Wiener	Composer

Technical Credits

Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson	Screenwriter
Anatole Dauman	Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Mouchette
1. Logos/Opening Credits [2:23]
2. Poacher and Gamekeeper [4:23]
3. Suspicious Affairs [5:27]
4. Lessons [4:04]
5. Sunday Morning [3:12]
6. At the Fair [5:06]
7. Foolish Men [2:46]
8. A Storm Approaches [3:31]
9. Tussle in the Woods [4:09]
10. Captured [6:24]
11. Le Petit Mal [13:16]
12. One Night's Sorrow [4:42]
13. Accusations [4:43]
14. Funeral Gown [8:22]
15. Rabbit Hunt [3:31]
16. Last Attempt [1:54]
17. Color Bars [3:37]
1. Adaptation [2:23]
2. Sex and Death [4:23]
3. Blocks of Meaning [5:27]
4. Wrong Notes [4:04]
5. Hints of Sexuality [3:12]
6. Cinematography in Action [5:06]
7. Compression of Time [2:46]
8. Setting up a Reversal [3:31]
9. Casting Nadine Nortier [4:09]
10. Centerpiece of the Film [6:24]
11. Film-Noir Couple [13:16]
12. Continuation of a Scene [4:42]
13. Mouchette's Rebellion [4:43]
14. Another Outsider [8:22]
15. Death's New Meaning [3:31]
16. Traps [1:54]
17. Color Bars [3:37]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Mouchette
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Chapters
Commentary
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Index
Au Hasard Bresson
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Cinéma: "Travelling"
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Trailer by Jean-Luc Godard
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Subtitles
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Editorial Reviews

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.