- Au hasard Balthazar
Infobox_Film
name = Au hasard Balthazar
caption = Cover to The Criterion Collection DVD
director =Robert Bresson
producer =Mag Bodard
writer =Robert Bresson
starring =Anne Wiazemsky François Lafarge
music =Jean Wiener
cinematography =Ghislain Cloquet
editing =Raymond Lamy
distributor =Cinema Ventures
released =May 25 ,1966
runtime = 95 min.
language = French
budget =
amg_id =1:84117
imdb_id =0060138|"Au hasard Balthazar", also known as "Balthazar", is a
1966 French film directed byRobert Bresson , starringAnne Wiazemsky . The film's religious imagery, spiritual allegories and naturalistic, minimalist aesthetic style has been praised by film reviewers. [ [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/balthazar Au Hasard Balthazar - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes ] ] This "brief, elliptical tale about the life and death of a donkey" has "exquisite renderings of pain and abasement" and "compendiums of cruelty" that tell a powerful spiritual message. [James Quandt essay, available at: http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=297&eid=418§ion=essay&page=3]Plot
The film follows Marie, a farm girl, and her beloved donkey Balthazar. As Marie grows up the pair become separated, but the film traces both their fates as they continue to live a parallel existence, continually taking abuse of all forms from the people they encounter.
Cast
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Anne Wiazemsky [Joseph Cunneen, "The Donkey as Witness: "Au hasard Balthasar" "Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film". New York: Continuum (2003): 108. "Against Bresson's wishes, Ms. Wiazemsky embarked on an acting career after "Balthasar", making films with directors like Godard and Pasolini."] as Marie
*Sam Chesher as Gerard
*Philippe Asselin as Marie's father
*Nathalie Joyaut as Marie's mother
*Walter Green as Jacques
*Jean-Claude Guilbert as Arnold
*Pierre Klossowski as Merchant
*François Sullerot as Baker
*Marie-Claire Fremont as Baker's wife
*Jean Rémignard as NotaryReferences
4. In her book "Jeune Fille" (2007),
Anne Wiazemsky looks back on the period in her life when the film was made.External links
*imdb title|id=0060138|title=Au hasard Balthazar
* [http://artsandfaith.com/t100/auhasard.html Au Hasard Balthazar] at the [http://www.artsandfaith.com/t100/ Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films] list
* [http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=297&eid=418§ion=essay Criterion Collection essay by James Quandt]
* [http://dandolavueltaajosebegega.blogspot.com/2008/02/esta-noche-he-visto-au-hasard-balthazar.html Artículo sobre la película AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Francia 1966) de Robert Bresson] (español)
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