"The Encounter of Balthazar"

Shyann 2022-03-23 09:03:28

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 mountains. The dog is barking. Bells are ringing in the flock.

Mary, a wandering wanderer in an unknown foreign land,

can remember that

late at night, she once wore a bouquet of flowers

on Baltazar's head.

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Au hasard Balthazar quotes

  • 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.