CaveGirl Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Watch! That's all I'm saying. You'll thank me later. And if you don't, well I just feel sorry for you. I think it was Jean-Luc Godard who said the film was "the world...in an hour and a half". So true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Seen it before. Yes, It's a great film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 (had to look it up) film's a premiere, airs late Sun on TCM Imports @ 2:15am ET article here: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/67785/Au-hasard-Balthazar/articles.html Roger Ebert called this 1966 drama director Robert Bresson's "most heartbreaking prayer." (had to post different link) Edited by: mr6666 on Dec 20, 2013 8:29 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Coud have sworn TCM has shown it before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 can't swear one way or 'tother this is according to NPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimpole Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 I thoroughly endorse this thread, and encourage everyone to watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Hi CaveGirl, I hope everyone watches your film tonight and enjoys it. I don't think I'll watch it because I think it would depress me. I hate to see young ladies and animals abused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 French version of "Jackass the Movie" but question is, who' the biggest? Hasard[/i]Balthazar+2.jpg] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Some people don't like it, Fred, and I am one of them. The donkey is great, but Bresson "proves" his hypothesis that people are basically evil and that grace is an unmerited gift (as in Calvinism or the 17th-century French Catholic version, Jansenism) by making people act, well, basically evil. The director identifies totally with his lofty, remote, and all-powerful deity. I like some of Bresson's other films a lot, especially *A Man Escaped*, where human beings still have some capacity for goodness, the director is willing to cast attractive and talented people, and the deity he worships is good as well as powerful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 "Stylistically, Bresson was an advocate of what he called "pure cinematography," a filmmaking technique divorced from any connection to the stage to focus entirely on the creation of images. He tried to drain the acting from his actors, often doing as many as 50 takes until they were too worn out to force any emotion." -was also kinda put off by the the 'deadness' of the actors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Thanks kingrat. I don't think I've ever seen any of his films, and I'm not interested. I don't need a depressing sermon preached to me by a French new wave director. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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