Review of Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) by Emre T — 05 Mar 2010
"Godard's famous claim that Au hasard Balthazar is ?the world in an hour and a half? suggests how dense, how immense Bresson's brief, elliptical tale about the life and death of a donkey is.
The film?s steady accumulation of incident, characters, mystery, and social detail, its implicative use of sound, offscreen space, and editing, have the miraculous effect of turning the director?s vaunted austerity into endless plenitude, which is perhaps the central paradox of Bresson's cinema.
This review of Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) was written by Emre T on 05 Mar 2010.
Au Hasard Balthazar has generally received very positive reviews.
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