Au Hasard Balthazar

Name: Au Hasard Balthazar
Director: Robert Bresson
Released: 1966

Robert Bresson

black and white donkey misery suicide countryside

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Synopsis

The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

Cinema Atlas Connection

Bresson is a director I admire. He’s influenced me very much, especially Au Hasard Balthazar.

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