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Nadine Nortier | Mouchette | |
Jean-Claude Guilbert | Arsène | |
Maria Cardinal | La mère | |
Paul Hébert | Father (as Paul Hebert) | |
Jean Vimenet | Mathieu | |
Marie Susini | Mathieu's wife | |
Suzanne Huguenin | Layer Out of the Dead | |
Marine Trichet | Luisa | |
Raymonde Chabrun | Grocer | |
Liliane Princet | Schoolteacher (uncredited) | |
Marie Cardinal | La mère | |
Paul Hebert | Father |
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Producer | Anatole Dauman
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Writer | Georges Bernanos
Robert Bresson |
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Cinematography | Ghislain Cloquet
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Musician | Jean Wiener
Claudio Monteverdi |
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Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feeling with Mouchette, one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film. Faced with a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace in nature and daily routine, a respite from her economic and pubescent turmoil. An essential work of French filmmaking, Bresson’s hugely empathetic drama elevates its trapped protagonist into one of the cinema’s great tragic figures. |
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