Mouchette
Dir: Robert Bresson
France, 1967, 81minmins, DCP
Cast: Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert
Long considered one of Bresson’s best albeit bleakest films, once again based on a work by Georges Bernanos. Mouchette is a rural waif condemned by her surroundings: a sick mother, an alcoholic and abusive father, a household plagued by poverty and scorn and abuse from all whom she encounters. Still, she tries to be good, to help, to survive in a cruel world. Once again, for a Bresson heroine, redemption is both achingly close and impossibly far away.
1967 Cannes Film Festival, Special Distinction
1967 French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, Best Film
Further reading:
‘Filmmakers on Bresson – Wim Wenders, Robert Bresson by James Quandt (Toronto: Cinematheque Ontario, 1998)
‘Filmmakers on Bresson – Louis Malle, Robert Bresson by James Quandt (Toronto: Cinematheque Ontario, 1998)
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Tickets available at screening venue on screening date 2017-05-21 (Sun)
17:15Buy Ticket 2017-07-09 (Sun)
19:00
Remarks
* Please click here for the footnote on Dogme 95.
- On-the-day Ticket Purchase Arrangement : Tickets are available at URBTIX outlets until one hour before the screening, after which tickets are available at URBTIX website and mobile app. On-the-day tickets will also be available at the Self-service Ticketing Kiosk of the respective venue, subject to availability.
- Unless otherwise stated, all films (except English-speaking films) are subtitled in English.
- While it is the HKIFFS’s policy to secure the best possible print of the original version for all its screenings, the HKIFFS appreciates its patrons’ understanding on occasions when less than perfect screening copies are screened.
