Rhett And that same music plays over the end. Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar is an odd case, because while there are many things, seemingly large plot points, ... where the classical music is playing. After making several prison-themed films using his theory of "pure cinematography", Bresson stated that he wanted to move onto a different style of filmmaking. [4], According to Wiazemsky's 2007 novel Jeune Fille, she and Bresson developed a close relationship during the shooting of the film, although it was not consummated. On location they stayed in adjoining rooms and Wiazemsky said that "at first, he would content himself by holding my arm, or stroking my cheek. One rainy night, Marie, soaking wet, knocks on the miller's door asking for shelter - she has run away from Gerard. [10] In 2003, J. Hoberman stated, "Robert Bresson's heart-breaking and magnificent Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) — the story of a donkey's life and death in rural France — is the supreme masterpiece by one of the greatest of 20th-century filmmakers. Wiazemsky states: "It was not his intention to teach me how to be an actress. This screening is part of the Themester series, which is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and IU Cinema and is supported through the Cinema’s Creative Collaborations program. In the French countryside near the Pyrenees, a baby donkey is adopted by young children - Jacques and his sisters, who live on a farm. Gerard is there with his gang, and they strip her, beat her, then lock her in. "[19], Ignatiy Vishnevetsky similarly commented, "Bresson never attempts to humanize Balthazar. While Marie's mother is grieving, Gerard turns up with his gang and asks if he can borrow Balthazar. In the morning, we see Balthazar has a gunshot wound. "[19], The film premièred at the 1966 Venice Film Festival where it won the OCIC (International Catholic Organization for Cinema) Award, the San Giorgio Prize, and the New Cinema Award. [7], When Au Hasard Balthazar first played in New York at the 1966 Film Festival, "it received mostly unfavorable notices". Published by Oxford University Press. Film critic Tom Milne called it "perhaps [Bresson's] greatest film to date, certainly his most complex. Home Page | Content © 1999 - 2010 Center For Religious Humanism, 3307 Third Ave. West Seattle, WA, 98119 | ph (206) 281-2988 | fx (206) 281-2979 | image@imagejournal.org. [...] What Balthazar experiences of human nature is both pure and limited: the embrace of a lonely young woman, the unprovoked attack of an angry young man, and the work of the farms whose owners worry over money. The sheep gather around Balthazar, their bells jangling, as he lays down and dies. "[10] Godard married Anne Wiazemsky, who played Marie in the film, in 1967. Believed to be inspired by a passage from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1868-69 novel The Idiot, the film follows a donkey as he is given to various owners, most of whom treat him callously. "[6], The film's editor was Raymond Lamy, a veteran of French cinema whose first editing credit was in 1931. Ostensibly it's for a procession, but they use the donkey to carry contraband for smuggling over the border. Other movie animals may roll their eyes or stomp their hooves, but Balthazar simply walks or waits, regarding everything with the clarity of a donkey who knows it is a beast of burden, and that its life consists of either bearing or not bearing [...] This is the cinema of empathy. It stands by itself as one of the loftiest pinnacles of artistically realized emotional experience. Au Hasard Balthazar (French pronunciation: [o a.zaʁ bal.ta.zaʁ]; meaning "Balthazar, at Random"), also known as Balthazar, is a 1966 French tragedy film directed by Robert Bresson.
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