Au Hasard Balthazar - TnTVillage

Credits

Written and directed by Robert Bresson
Executive producer: Mag Bodard
Assistant directors: Sven Frostenson, Jacques Kebadian, Claude Miller
Director of photography: Ghislain Cloquet
Cameraman: Jean Chiabaut
Sets: Pierre Charbonnier
Sound: Antoine Archimbaud, Jacques Carrère
Editor: Raymond Lamy
Music: Franz Schubert (Piano Sonata no. 20) Performed by Jean-Joel Barbier
Jazz and songs: Jean Wiener
Continuity: Genevieve Cortier
Animal trainer: Guy Renault
Production manager: Philippe Dussart

Cast

Marie | Anne Wiazemsky
Jacques | Walter Green
Gérard | François Lafarge
Marie’s father | Philippe Asselin
Marie’s mother | Nathalie Joyaut
Arnold | Jean-Claude Guilbert
The grain dealer | Pierre Klossowski
The priest | Jean-Joel Barbier
The baker’s wife | Marie-Claire Fremont
The baker | François Sullerot
The gendarme | Jacques Sorbets
The attorney-at-law | Jean Remignard

Synopsis

A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, director Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar follows the 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 man. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson’s unconventional approach to composition, sound, and narrative, this seemingly simple story becomes a moving parable of purity and transcendence.


Vita, patimenti e morte dell'asino Balthazar, vittima della malvagità umana nella campagna francese, in parallelo con l'esistenza, altrettanto infelice, di Maria, la sua prima padroncina. Una delle vette del cinema, e della visione pessimistica del mondo e dell'umanità, di Bresson che ha come punti di riferimento letterario Bernanos e Dostoevskij: è un mondo senza la Grazia osservato dall'occhio obiettivo di un asino; una riflessione cristiana (giansenista?) sull'esistenza del male; un viaggio sconvolgente attraverso i vizi umani narrato con un linguaggio spoglio e una concretezza che lascia parlare la realtà (le sue immagini) senza emettere giudizi. Lo scrittore Klossowski v'interpreta il mercante di grano. Esordio di A. Wiazemsky, futura interprete di Godard.

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