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Mouchette

  • 19671967
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 21m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
12K
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Mouchette (1967)
  • Drama
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
12K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Robert Bresson
  • Writers
    • Georges Bernanos(novel)
    • Robert Bresson(scenario & adaptation and dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Nadine Nortier
    • Jean-Claude Guilbert
    • Marie Cardinal
Top credits
  • Director
    • Robert Bresson
  • Writers
    • Georges Bernanos(novel)
    • Robert Bresson(scenario & adaptation and dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Nadine Nortier
    • Jean-Claude Guilbert
    • Marie Cardinal
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 44User reviews
    • 84Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 7 wins & 2 nominations

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    Nadine Nortier in Mouchette (1967)
    Robert Bresson in Mouchette (1967)
    Nadine Nortier in Mouchette (1967)
    Jean-Claude Guilbert in Mouchette (1967)
    Nadine Nortier in Mouchette (1967)
    Mouchette (1967)
    Nadine Nortier in Mouchette (1967)
    Mouchette (1967)
    Mouchette (1967)
    Nadine Nortier in Mouchette (1967)
    Paul Hébert and Nadine Nortier in Mouchette (1967)
    Nadine Nortier in Mouchette (1967)

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    Nadine Nortier
    Nadine Nortier
    • Mouchetteas Mouchette
    Jean-Claude Guilbert
    Jean-Claude Guilbert
    • Arsèneas Arsène
    Marie Cardinal
    Marie Cardinal
    • Mouchette's Motheras Mouchette's Mother
    Paul Hébert
    Paul Hébert
    • Mouchette's Fatheras Mouchette's Father
    • (as Paul Hebert)
    Jean Vimenet
    • Mathieu - gamekeeperas Mathieu - gamekeeper
    Marie Susini
    • Mathieu's wifeas Mathieu's wife
    Liliane Princet
    • Schoolteacheras Schoolteacher
    Suzanne Huguenin
    • Undertakeras Undertaker
    Marine Trichet
    • Luisaas Luisa
    Raymonde Chabrun
    • Grocery Shop-owneras Grocery Shop-owner
    • Director
      • Robert Bresson
    • Writers
      • Georges Bernanos(novel)
      • Robert Bresson(scenario & adaptation and dialogue)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      It was rumored for years that the trailer for this film was by Jean-Luc Godard, and he has recently confirmed this by programming it in a self-curated retrospective of his work. The trailer is virtually a miniature essay on (or subversion of) the film, jarringly intercutting excerpts from it with a written commentary that calls it "Christian and sadistic".
    • Goofs
      (at around 1 min) The canteen changes position after being dropped.
    • Quotes

      Mouchette: [singing] Hope! Hope is dead, Three days, Columbus said to them, Pointing to the vast sky ahead, That stretched beyond the horizon...

    • Connections
      Edited into Bande-annonce de 'Mouchette' (1967)
    • Soundtracks
      Magnificat
      Written by Claudio Monteverdi
      Performed by Les Chanteurs de St. Eustache
      Conducted by R.P. Émile Martin

    User reviews44

    Review
    Top review
    9/10
    Tragic tale of an unappreciated adolescent girl. A Bresson Masterpiece.
    My Rating : 9/10

    Bresson is heralded as an important filmmaker in world cinema. I absolutely love 'Mouchette' and it is a masterpiece of world cinema. It was on Tarkovsky's top 10 films list he made for Sight & Sound.

    Bresson's other famous film Au Hasard Balthasar and Mouchette have common themes of abuse and negligence of the main characters. This film has the formal inevitability of tragedy, and is soaked through with a species of lyrical, desperate sadness. This quality, and the compelling aesthetic seriousness with which Bresson addresses his themes of suffering, compassion and the rural poor, are very remarkable indeed. Mouchette is a visionary, poetic film, fraught with elusive, unsettling meanings: a classic cinematic text.
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    • Amyth47
    • Oct 7, 2018

    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 12, 1970 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Muset
    • Filming locations
      • Apt, Vaucluse, France
    • Production companies
      • Argos Films
      • Parc Film
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 21 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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