Au hasard Balthazar

Au hasard Balthazar

  • Director: Robert Bresson
  • Countries of origin: France, Sweden
  • Language: French, Latin
  • Release date: May 25, 1966
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Balthazar
  • Au hasard Balthazar is a feature film directed by Robert Bresson and starring Anne Wiazemsky and Walter Green.
    The film stares coldly at the world through the eyes of the donkey.

    Details

    • Release date May 25, 1966
    • Filming locations Guyancourt, Yvelines, France
    • Production companies Argos Films, Athos Films, Parc Film

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $45,406

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $8,436

    Gross worldwide

    $45,406

    Movie reviews

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    • By Talon 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      I can't watch the movie

      I'm looking at Bresson's donkey

      I was thinking when I saw the bike

      These people can go to other places on their own, why do they need to make donkey carts?

      Then those little boys came and pulled this donkey cart

      The master whipped his donkey

      what do you think

      I think of consumerism

      Then a car drove by

      There is a coherence to the story

      The author's pen is particularly evident

      And the relationship between the characters is very...

    • By Kolby 2022-03-24 09:03:48

      I admit I like donkeys

      It feels like there is a secret connection between Bassat the Donkey and The Horse of Turin. Donkeys and horses are similar creatures, but they are treated differently. Horses are always looked up to. They are noble, free, and spiritual; donkeys are small, stupid, and screeching loudly, as if they should be tamed by humans to perform heavy labor. Horses have their own independent will and dignity, and Nietzsche also cried for it. The horse that refuses to eat in "The Horse of Turin" is...

    • By Lionel 2022-03-23 09:03:28

      This is the most beautiful death

      Balthazar is a donkey, she loves it is a myth, the more she loves it, the more they hate it, its presence makes them seem ridiculous.
      The arrival of a new member makes all kinds of animals extremely excited or frightened, and they shout with joy.
      When a person is drunk, he subconsciously kills someone, and he doesn't even know he has committed a crime. Will he still be held responsible?
      Feeling the donkey's feelings, it is the alienation of a person like a person with feelings....

    • By Shyann 2022-03-23 09:03:28

      "The Encounter of Balthazar"

      Like a clean, unadorned European novel, the film presents a poetry not often found in Bresson's films.

      drunkard.

      A furious chair. Balthazar's whimper.

      Two loud slaps. Mary covered her face and wept.

      Balthazar's life experience and Mary's fate are like two lines that are constantly intersecting, and finally come to an end, and Balthazar falls dead in the desolate and lonely wilderness of the frontier like a bard.

      Shepherds are in the invisible...

    • By Alysha 2022-03-23 09:03:28

      Bresson, Schubert, donkey, longing for spring

      Many classic movies like to use Schubert's music as the background music. I know "Barry Lyndon", "The Piano Teacher", "To Die Happy", and it is said that there is also "The Mechanic", but I haven't watched it and have no right to say. , those films used his chamber music trio No. 100 D929, this Baltazar donkey, selected by director Bresson is Schubert's Piano Sonata No. 20 D959, the second movement is sad .

      From the feeling, as long as it is a movie that uses Schubert's music, there...

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    • By Garry 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      Bresson continues brief...

    • By Josephine 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      Images (living symbols) represent everything, and religious themes shape and reinforce metaphors and existential dilemmas. Fate is resigned, to the point of Stockholm Syndrome. The walking dead performance lies in the walking dead nature of life, being driven, inside and out, even with wisdom and will, still unable to get rid of it. Running away is just a cycle of being punished again. In the end, the donkey can only choose to die, in a flock of sheep. And what about...

    • By Ronny 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      Recently, I was watching [Little Donkey and Me] Europeans especially like to use donkeys as a mirror of themselves, probably because of the fateful tragedy of beasts and human beings, and extended some sighs of holy fools. This is a typical concept-first movie. People control the fate of donkeys, and people cannot escape the ubiquitous shackles of...

    • By Shany 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      7.8/10 is almost naked, but it does not affect understanding. The title of the master is indeed not for nothing, but the minimalist handwriting interprets a lot of...

    • By Rosendo 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      The P5 doesn't work, the headphone jack is broken, and what I'm watching is...

    Evaluation action

    The donkey is naturally a line connecting the whole story, and all kinds of characters, even if they appear to be unrelated, will be related to the donkey.
    Exchange: In addition to the donkey being the most frequently exchanged thing in the whole story, there are other scenes of various exchanges in Capitalist society . While exchange is inherently one of the most distinctive features of capitalism, Bresson is said to have always liked...
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    Movie quotes

    • Marie's mother: He is in despair. Comfort him.

      [Marie's father turns away]

      Priest: You must forgive. Everyone. Much will be forgiven you. You have suffered.

      Marie's father: I may suffer less than you think.

      Priest: [Reading] God does not foresake forever. He may punish, yet he will have compassion. H does not willingly afflict the children of men.

    • Marie: Don't you believe in anything?

      Merchant: I believe in what I own. I love money. I hate death.

      Marie: You'll die like everyone else.

      Merchant: I will bury them all.

    • Gerard: Lend him to us.

      Marie's mother: He's worked enough. He's old. He's all I have.

      Gerard: Just for a day.

      Marie's mother: Besides, he's a saint.