His life is paralleled with that of the girl who named him, and as she is humiliated by her sadistic lover, so he is beaten by his owner. While the alternately tender and brutal allegory Au hasard Balthazar is widely considered Bresson’s masterpiece, he had a long, visionary career that began in the forties and ended in the eighties, and was full of consistently fine films—the period drama Les dames du bois de Boulogne, the ascetic character study Diary of a Country Priest, and the minimalist tragedies Pickpocket and Mouchette among them.

He was known to shoot the same shot 10, 20, even 50 times, until all "acting" was drained from it, and the actors were simply performing the physical actions and speaking the words. It works as a farm animal, pulling a delivery cart and working as any manner as various owners require of it. She says she wants to 'have it out' with Gerard and goes to visit a barn where they used to meet. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) Plot. Marie's father dies shortly after, when visited by a priest.

Although he has managed the farm with perfect honesty, he refuses to produce records or receipts to prove himself, after rumors are spread by jealous neighbors that he is stealing from the owner. The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him.

Marie later enters into an abusive relationship with him, leaving her parents. What we see through Balthazar's eyes is a village filled with small, flawed, weak people, in a world where sweetness is uncommon and cruelty comes easily.That is what we see -- but what does Balthazar see? The 'dreamer' is Jacques, a young painter, who by chance runs into Marthe as she's contemplating suicide on the Pont-Neuf in Paris.

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In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Balthazar becomes ill, and Arnold takes the donkey off Gerard's hands. It was definitely worth searching for. The film is a parable of virtue & purity. It is not a beautiful sound, but it is the sound a donkey can make, and when Balthazar brays it might sound to some like a harsh complaint, but to me it sounds like a beast who has been given one noise to make in the world, and gains some satisfaction by making it.

He has at last found a place where the other creatures think as he does.Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013.

Simply copy it to the References page as is. While Marie's mother is grieving, Gerard turns up with his gang and asks if he can borrow Balthazar. The police send Balthazar to market.

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A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person until carelessness leads to tragedy. In the morning, we see Balthazar has a gunshot wound. At night, when Gerard and accomplice are supposed to be meeting their contact, they are instead shot at and they flee. > Notre métier > Le restaurant Au Hasard Balthazar. We first see Balthazar as a newborn, taking its first unsteady steps, and there is a scene that provides a clue to the rest of the film; three children sprinkle water on its head and baptize it. During a summer holiday, the baby donkey is a child's pet but when they return home, it begins it's life of misery. This is the cinema of empathy. Balthazar runs off and hides in bushes.

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The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. But Marie is not sure she wants to marry Jacques. Freshen up your watchlist with Prime Video’s latest roster of movies and TV shows, featuring Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? One rainy night, Marie, soaking wet, knocks on the miller's door asking for shelter - she has run away from Gerard.