Description:Mouchette: Mouchette is a young teenager living in the tough country. Her mother is going to die, and her father does not take care of her. Mouchette does not manage to express her rebellion against the humiliations she undergoes. One night, in the wood, she meets Arsene. Arsene is the poacher of the village. He thinks he has just kilMouchette: Mouchette is a young teenager living in the tough country. Her mother is going to die, and her father does not take care of her. Mouchette does not manage to express her rebellion against the humiliations she undergoes. One night, in the wood, she meets Arsene. Arsene is the poacher of the village. He thinks he has just killed Mathieu, the rural policeman. He tries to use Mouchette to build an alibi. ... (more)(less)
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The darkest coming of age film I've seen. When Mouchette rolls through the grass I hoped she was embracing what joy she had left in life. The only way for Mouchette to experience joy is through escape; Bresson, I learned, makes no facile endings."
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" Commentary and Film Notes (contains spoilers)
Tony Rayns' commentary provided less insight I missed in my first viewing of Mouchette than I hoped. I only have a cursory understanding of Bresson's filmography and his cinematography, or his filmmaking. The motif of Mouchette being figuratively hunted, the transforming aspect of the music in the prayer, the suicide, the schoo, and before the rape were obvious; the linking of the scenes with Mouchette getting wet, getting coins, drinking alcohol, t"